>> 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.

I would have thought compared to building a large, complex application 
to run the machine itself, writing a few dozen lines of assembly to 
function as a device driver would be pretty trivial...

> 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?

In what universe can you license Windows for a piffling $75? (And can I 
join this universe?)

Post a reply to this message