Re: Mac OS X refund
"Jon Grant" <[email protected]>
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Hi Ian, Thanks for the reply. > Since around 30-40% of M$'s profitability is selling Windows, if the > price falls from £70 an OEM to £3 its going to have a very significant > effect. Initially, paradoxically more people might actually get legal so > difficult to be sure what the effect would be overall. Also EEEPC is > only the first. We will be selling the ink-media Ubuntu based machine > that is the same price but with a bigger 10" screen. Once there is an > obvious market, watch Dell, Lenovo and everyone dive in. All these will > also come with OpenOffice.org so that is another 40% of M$'s > profitability under threat especially if their OOXML ISO bid fails. good points. OpenOffice takes 25 secs to load on my Dell Inspiron 1300 with 512MB ram (unless I close Firefox when its only slightly quicker).. I think OO is pretty bloatware and that AutoCorrect style "clippy" thing is annoying! Is your shop with the ink-media and EEE online somewhere? Cheers, Jon _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk