Well thank you for proving my point, though I don't appreciate the crudity and am not quoting that part of your post. When you have to resort to crudity it is a good sign that your case is not a good one. You are only trying to squelch discussion.
An organization that has to depend on second-hand donations and vendor give aways is clearly not operating in a free market. Just like someone sleeping on a park bench on a cold Winter night is not exercising a free market preference for cold and hard beds. So back to my original statement. In a distorted, non-free market popularity is not a good surrogate for perceived quality. You don't get to attribute quality using a "10,000,000 Frenchmen can't be wrong" type of argument. >I guess it is time to insert a little economy into the discussion of >why people buy PC's with windows. > >1. Most Non-Profits, like the one that I volunteer for seem to >perpetually have a lack of funds to purchase PC's. Lots of what they >get are second hand donations which makes the price correct. > >2. Many small business's of 3-10 persons like law, medical and >accounting offices purchase their PC's base on bang for the buck. >which means price. >I bought a client 4 Dell's from MicroCenter for $399 each, they came >with XP Pro, 1gig Ram and 80 gig hard disks. And a keyboard and mouse >included. No monitors but cheap LCD's abound. > >3. Non-Profits can purchase software and hardware thru TechSoup, >which MS sells their XP pro for around $8 a copy. And MS Office pro >for about the same. > >Of course the Non-Profit that I volunteer for has around 120 >workstations and 8 windows 2003 servers. No Apple products were >available for them to purchase at a cheap price like Intel PC's and >MS products. They did get a really good price break from Dell on >their servers and switch's. > >(I don't think that the BOD would approve purchasing MAC's when they >can get Windows PC's for a small amount of outlay.) > >Techsoup is the primary place for validated non-profit's to acquire >hardware and software at real cheap prices. No Apple products seem >to be visible. I understand that Apple does provide software/hardware >in small amounts to some non-profits that jump thru the many-many >hoops to get it. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
