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Originally Posted by Edward M. Grant
Last time my employer bought a Sun workstation for me it cost about $25,000. Last time I bought a laptop I looked at the equivalent Mac laptop and it was two and half times the price of the Windows version.
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I wasn't advocating Macs; I was advocating that all computers should be sold whiteboxed and the consumer allowed to choose which OS they want to run. If they grab the copy of Windows, that's fine and dandy. They made the choice. But if they want to put a copy of Linux or BSD on it, or even code their own OS from scratch as part of a computer science project; then they should be able to make the choice to do it without having to pay for a copy of Windows they aren't going to use.
Apple has its own freedom-related issues and I'm not going to touch them in this thread.
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And real OEMs, I believe, actually make money from putting Windows on computers because Microsoft only charge them a few dollars and third parties pay them to load it up with their crapware (and Microsoft then complain because the crapware makes them take forever to boot).
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That explains some of the complaints I've gotten from MS-certified tech folks. But in that case, shouldn't MS be putting a little pressure on the OEMs to have less boat?