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>> Well, the essential point was risk reduction. Sure, you *can* reverse
>> engineer it. Now tell me how long it'll take, with the same accuracy
>> with which I can predict how long it'll take to buy a copy of Windows.
>>
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> Hmm, thousands of dollars in programming hours, and the risk that you
> get something critical wrong or, $75 per machine for a license.
While these arguments seem sound, it still doesn't really address the
whole "you don't need an entire desktop OS just to run a trivial
embedded device like an ATM" angle.
Although, if our old dishwasher was running Windows, I guess that would
explain why it eventually stopped working. :-P
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