On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 06:35:35AM -0800, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
The reason being, that the most costly part of any modern 'win32' based computer is its operating system. By eliminating a Windoze license, you EASILY shave off 300$ from the computer's price. So, your 500$ cheapskate computer is now a 200$ cheapskate computer--
Interesting. I knew it was quite a bit, but I didn't realize it was quite *that* much.
Well, windows itself (XP Home) is about $100, but with Office it's around $300.
- ROS, and any/all other open sourced products must
not be 'sold', but reimbursement charges (copying, or other expenses for making products and sources available) are applicable within reason.
The GPL explicitly allows you to sell GPLed software, as long as the licensing terms are maintained; however, this would be counter to your purpose, and not consistently useful, as those users could then take the software and give away copies for free... (or just d/l from the 'net to begin with).
Well, it would be nice to have some buyable reactos as well. In a box, with a manual. Else it stays an OS for nerds. If it ain't in the stores, people won't know it. Price could be as little as $10-$25. (of course a freely downloadable version could easily coexist, but some people just like to buy stuff).
Mark