Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Why on earth would you pay vast sums of money to use software that only 
> provides features that you don't actually need?

Because it provides the features you *do* need.

When I was working with the vending machines, nobody made a device that 
would take in bills and make change that could be driven from Linux, for 
example.

Plus, if you pass the cost on to the customer, it's not that big an expense 
compared to buying the machine and the software *you* wrote to start with. 
If you're selling a $5000 machine with $9000 of custom software on it, are 
you really going to bitch at $75 of Windows licenses?

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Serving Suggestion:
     "Don't serve this any more. It's awful."

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