At 10:01 AM 27/06/2008, Ben Ruset wrote:
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.
Actually, any OEM copy of Windows has no support from MS. All support is through the vendor. (Now I've called MS before on support, and while they were completely useless, they didn't hassle me about being OEM, so maybe they don't enforce this.) You're point on Linux support is well taken, however.
T
