[Am-info] Gateway Official Hits Microsoft Licensing In Testimony

[John J. Urbaniak]

Felmon Davis wrote:

>
>
> I hope so but this hypothetical scenario assumes both sufficient
> demand for other operating systems and a good cost/profit balance:
> OEMs must find that the market is willing to bear whatever it costs
> them to install Linux, OS/2 or whatever. (I'm having a hard time
> filling out the 'whatever' with plausible candidates.)
>

The "cost" should be the true cost, not only the cost of installing, but
the cost of supporting and maintaining.

I have a user of my OS/2 system which has been running heavily for more
than *three years* with not one, single crash, blue screen, reboot, or
re-install.

So what is the "true cost" for that customer's system compared to what
they would have spent on a Windows product?

John