Well, the difference is that a copy of XP or OSX comes with support.
Linux gets fairly expensive if you factor in vendor support. And, I'm
not sure if you've ever had the pleasure of dealing with Red Hat
support, but they're terrible. Microsoft support, on the other hand, has
always been amazing to me.
Brian Weeden wrote:
Agreed.
Although I think it's sad that we consider $100 to be a "reasonable" price
point to pay every year or two for an OS upgrade. In contrast to
Microsoft's normal pricing, that's true. But compared to Linux (whatever
it's faults) it's still darn unreasonable.
