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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But that built on junk is not good enough for ME and I do developement on the same computer as I email and surf, so windows is VERY expensive for ME. And there are LOTS of people out there that have hobbies or that like to do different stuff with there computer besides email and surf, windows is VERY expensive for THEM.
If everyone was satisfied with only email and surfing, then internet appliances would have done extrememly well. In case you haven't noticed, every IA tanked, maybe your the one guy out there that bought one, I don't know.
People prefer general purpose PCs because of the fact that they are capable of doing lots of different things. Windows charges you for every little piece of software to do anything out of the box, FreeBSD and linux do not.