1.What does the user get for their $50/£50?

The user gets 12 months support and updates.  This excludes 3rd party packages 
that you may have installed (GWDG's repositories for 10.1 work a charm ;-))

2.If I want to perform OEM installs, what is the deal there? (NLD9 answers
are fine, or pointers to where I can find this out myself.)

To be honest I don't know.  I'll try and dig out the spreadsheet that Novell 
sent me when NLD9 came out.

3.£100 is cheap for a non-OEM MS OS, isn't it?

Just a ball park figure that I made up - I have a funny feeling it may be 
higher, what a surprise taht would be.

4.I would *love* MS to really clamp down on misuse of OEM licences (and
piracy for that matter). Too many people get XP and MS Office "free" to
make a fair comparison with Linux/OOo/etc. In all the comparisons I've
seen of Vista and Linux w/XGL (eg SLED) recently they've all seemed to
miss the point that Linux has a hell of a lot of applications that are
extras (and expensive extras at that) on Vista.

Until this happens there won't be a true comparison, regardless of which camp 
does the review.  It would be interesting to see what the exact price 
difference is for a standard desktop that you would roll out to a client.

Regards,

Andy
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