lisadraw

der Mouse mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA
Tue Nov 7 13:19:38 CST 2006


>> I'm not saying this is a GOOD thing (this is one of the reasons I'm
>> at the Museum and not a start-up) it is just the way products are
>> built today.
> I'll say its a good thing, otherwise a PC with an operating system
> would still cost $10K, instead of $300.

There are at least two PC operating systems that cost $0 and work
perfectly well on hardware that's available for $0 because the latest
bloatware no logner runs tolerably on it.  More, if you draw finer
distinctions (like between FreeBSD and OpenBSD, or between Fedora and
Slackware).

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