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Posted Sep 11, 2006 22:29 UTC (Mon) by josh_stern (guest, #4868)
In reply to: more information by superstoned
Parent article: Windows will beat Linux threat, say academics (TechWorld)

Their model assumes Linus is free and doesn't say anything about costs to develop or bankruptcy. It also doesn't explain how Linux could have gotten started and gotten as far as it did - taken literally, it actually predicts that couldn't happen, so this is already a demonstration that the model isn't quite right. Another aspect that the model doesn't deal with is what type of ROI MSFT stockholders expect - i.e. even if they could theoretically drop Windows price as low as required for steady state, they might not be able to do that in reality.

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