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Microsoft vies for budget laptop market with XP price cuts (ars technica)Microsoft vies for budget laptop market with XP price cuts (ars technica)Posted May 12, 2008 21:00 UTC (Mon) by chromatic (subscriber, #26207)In reply to: Microsoft vies for budget laptop market with XP price cuts (ars technica) by stijn Parent article: Microsoft vies for budget laptop market with XP price cuts (ars technica)
It continues to amaze me that so many sellers of propietary and/or closed source software are erecting completely artificial barriers. Almost everything about proprietary software is an artificial barrier; duplication costs are almost irrelevant.
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Microsoft vies for budget laptop market with XP price cuts (ars technica) Posted May 12, 2008 22:25 UTC (Mon) by stijn (subscriber, #570) [Link] True. Still, crippleware brings to mind the phrase adding insult to injury.
Microsoft vies for budget laptop market with XP price cuts (ars technica) Posted May 12, 2008 22:56 UTC (Mon) by zotz (guest, #26117) [Link] "True. Still, crippleware brings to mind the phrase adding insult to injury." Yep except I think they might be multiplying by instead of adding to. ~;-) all the best, drew
Microsoft vies for budget laptop market with XP price cuts (ars technica) Posted May 13, 2008 20:18 UTC (Tue) by jmansion (guest, #36515) [Link] So? The cost of providing the implied support that is provided with it is non-zero. Nor is (r&d cost)*(1/probability-of-success)*(1/number-of-units)*(inflation-factor)*(reward-for-risk-factor). ie the required capital return for an investor to bankroll the development. Its very difficult to make a business case for an investment in free software development that isn't essentially monetising something already done by wrapping it up in fancy pants. (If you know how to, please do let on!) Try it, and bear in mind that providing services has a high cost of sales, a high service provider cost, a delay in revenue (so there is a time decay in the effective value), and a problem with competition from low-cost outfits who didn't foot any r&d bill. Lets NOT sneer at pay-for-ware, until we actually have a coherent answer that doesn't see software developed as a hobby, as a side effect of hardware sales, or as a P&R exercise by insurance salesmen (sorry, 'enterprise support providers').
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