Justin Johnson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 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?
Allow for some hyperbole and it doesn't take much effort. Some of the money that purchased that boxed set went towards the purchase of the computer sitting on the secretary's desk that runs some version of Windows. There's someone (or more than one) at each of those companies that runs a Microsoft product (for whatever reason). Your purchase of that boxed set helped finance the purchase of that Microsoft product. Like I said, it's a bit of a silly example, but so is the idea that if I purchase an Apple product, that because Microsoft owns some tiny fraction of Apple stock, that Microsocft profits from my purchase. Mike -- "Let the power of Ponch compel you! Let the power of Ponch compel you!" -- Zorak on Space Ghost GNUPG Key fingerprint = ACD2 2F2F C151 FB35 B3AF C821 89C4 DF9A 5DDD 95D1 GNUPG Key = http://www.enoch.org/mike/mike.pubkey.asc
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