On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 18:14, Justin Johnson wrote:
> > Anything you buy, part of the money is going to Microsoft somehow, some
> > way, just deal.
>
> Just to play devil's advocate here....
>
> So how does the cash spent for a boxed set of Red Hat or Mandrake get to
> Redmond?
Well, Red Hat probably has some Windows boxes somewhere, for testing
things like Samba, or for comparison benchmarking. And they might have
a Microsoft mouse or two. So it's entirely possible that they've paid a
small amount of money to Microsoft somehow, although it would be almost
unmeasurable divided among the $39.95 boxed sets.
--Jeremy
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