I feel with you. I think of it as a big mess that everyone has to purchase Windows when buying a new computer. The consumer has the right to choose his operating system. As far as I can see from my weblog there are about 55% Windows users, 25% Linux users and 15% Mac OS users. Who pays for the development of free software? nobody! Make users give a donation to the OSS community for every computer that is shipped with OSS-sw! It should be forbidden by anti trust law that software vendors have to sell all computers with Windows as soon as they want to offer computers with this operating system at all which is mandatory. The sum of the price of all sold licenses must not be lower when selling a higher quantity because this is fraud on competitors! I think the EU anti trust effort has simply failed in this area.
Elmar > > And I am supposed to keep this project going, funded by $9.99 for each > branded USB stick? > > Manufacturing them in Calgary at volume 1000 quantity costs $10 each. > I'm supposed to manufacture more than that? > > I am not feeling any love. Actually, I get a sense that people want > me to starve.
