18 Dec
2003
18 Dec
'03
4:56 p.m.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 06:35:35AM -0800, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
Well, windows itself (XP Home) is about $100, but with Office it's
around $300.
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-$25. (of course a
freely downloadable version could easily coexist, but some people just
like to buy stuff).
Mark
The reason
being, that the most costly part of any
modern 'win32' based computer is its operating system.
By eliminating a Windoze license, you EASILY shave off
300$ 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. 4) 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).