[CS-FSLUG] Ballmer Blames Software Piracy on Spendy Hardware

[N. Thompson]

I can't believe I'm hearing such ridiculous things from Microsoft, no 
decent general-use home computer could cost as little as USD $100 and 
there is absolutely no possible way Windows which costs CAD $299.99 for 
XP home is going to sell any better just because a computer will come 
out for USD $100. Unless Microsoft is going to port Windows to 
calculators I don't see how they are going to even be able to get their 
OS to run on such a cheap computer.

I can almost see the e-mails coming in now, people saying that $100 will 
get a decent computer for simple things like browsing the Internet and 
reading e-mail but lets be realistic here, a lot of people use their 
home computers for other stuff such as programming, playing games and 
using OpenOffice.org. Who is going to be able to do any of that and have 
a media player such as QCD running in the background at the same time 
and to take into further consideration how will a machine at that price 
handle KDevelop, or Dev-C++ for the dual booters among us, how about 
compile times, I wouldn't like having to wait several minutes for a 
simple program to compile when it should only take a few seconds or a 
minute at most.

Fred A. Miller wrote:

>Ballmer Blames Software Piracy on Spendy Hardware, or: What I'd Do   
>with a Hundred Bucks:
>   http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7859 -- Chris Dibona points out
>   some obvious holes in the latest reasoning why OSS is bad for
>  business and for users.
>
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