Linked by Ryan (aka Aurex) on Thu 10th Jun 2004 19:55 UTC
Ever since Microsoft started publicly outing Linux with their "Get the Facts" campaign, I have seen numerous articles and studies about the TCO (total cost of ownership) of both products in a head to head manner. However, I have yet to see one article discuss the TCO for home users and small businesses. I have thought long and crunched many numbers to devise a conclusion to this years old debate and I think the results are obvious... Windows is way more expensive than Linux.
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If you want to do anything useful with your computer then add:
$60 MPEG2 video tool (Womble)
$60 DVD authoring tool (xDvd-Maker)
$80 Quicken
$30 winzip
$99 nero burning rom
$94 adobe acrobat
$100 visual studio standard
$100 dv-movie editing software
For a grand total of $623. I have equivalents for all of these running for free on my FreeBSD machine.