User Linux

[Bennett, Patrick]

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From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Brent Fox
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:54 AM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: User Linux

>Also, just to make it fair, the $99 price for Windows XP Home is for
the upgrade version.  The retail price for the full version of Windows
XP Home is $199:
>
>http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=316255
>
>Then add Office 2003 to that at $369 for the full version:
>http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=539386
>
>$199 + $369 = $568  


Well, to make it *really* fair you can't count Office in the price
calculations since OpenOffice is available for Windows as well.
The same could be said for a fair number of packages that are being
considered part of the Linux bundle/price-advantage comparison.