Linked by Robert Trembath on Sat 30th Aug 2003 11:41 UTC
As a system administrator, I have used Windows on the desktop since 2.0 and used to run Windows XP at home for my family. I use Linux and Windows servers at work and prefer (Red Hat) Linux for its security, stability and usefulness in a company with a diminishing IT budget. More than a year ago I started experimenting with Linux as a desktop solution and after installing and using more than 7 different distros along with many various versions of those distros, I found a distro that is doing everything its suppose to do, right out of the box. I'm talking about the pleasantly suprising Lindows 4.0.
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Yes, to anyone we distribute software to we always allow them to download the source code to any of the GPL software or they can order it on disk. LindowsOS contains code with several different licenses and we comply with each.
As for XP being free, perhaps he simply purchased computers WITHOUT XP on it for around $100 less.
For example: http://www.prosourcepc.com/cfg/perform.cfm?sysno=2
Notice what you have to pay if you want XP added. =)
Builders pay around $100 to install XP on a computer. They certainly don't include it without raising the price of their computers to the consumer. On low-cost computers, the most expensive component (more than the motherboard, CPU, hard drive, etc.) is XP.
You can find more places to buy computers without XP at: http://lindows.com/featured
Kevin