[LUAU] Price of freedom is a $50 saving

Julian Yap julian_yap at yahoo.com
Fri May 25 12:13:20 PDT 2007


Ars Technica reports that the Windows tax is approximately $50:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070525-windows-tax-is-50-according-to-dell-linux-pc-pricing.html

Here's another report with some fairly comparative systems:
http://www.cs.uml.edu/~ntuck/dellbuntu/

+ you get the added benefit of an office suite and no
pre-installed 'crap ware'.  I imagine some may buy these
machines to re-install Windows XP.

I know many people don't buy bare bones systems because the
manufactures have charged them more than with Windows included
(on consumer machines).

- Julian




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