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In article <42qjqj$kbc@news-2.csn.net>,
   dhg@goodco.com (David H. Goodlette) wrote:
>Tonio Loewald (tonio@jolt.mpx.com.au) wrote:
>
>: and a fair bit on after sales support, etc. The big money will be in
>: selling Office 95 and replacements for all the other things that won't
>          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>: work quite right until you upgrade.
>
>
>(WARNING: ALL FIGURES BELOW REPRESENT MY OWN OPINION AND HAVE NOT
>BEEN VERIFIED AS TO THEIR ACCURACY)
>
>for a nice low price of PROBABLY                                149.95
>MS C/C++ probable upgrade price                                 149.95
>Typical fax pgm upgrade price                                    59.95
>Typical music s/w upgrade price                                 199.95
>Typical FoxPro upgradeprice                                     249.95
>Borland's probable C/C++                                        149.95
>
>8MB more of ram because you're dreamin' on 8MB		        550.00
>Extra 540MB hard drive to support the 100MB W95 release	250.00
>
>Memory extender stuff because W95 didn't quite get it right:      $119
>Better disk compression utilities compatible with other OS's:       99
>Just about anything else you bought for a conservative average of   75
>
>                                                                -------
>Out of your pocket to support your W95 upgrade                  $2052.70

    PLEASE NOTE: THESE COSTS ARE OVERSTATED BY 20% to 100% IN SOME CASES.
                 ALMOST ALL EXISTING APPLICATIONS WILL RUN WITH THE SAME
                 FUNTIONALITY AS BEFORE. A NUMBER OF UPGRADES ARE FREE.
                 CHECK WITH HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE VENDORS FOR THE REAL COSTS
                 INVOLVED.

>$2052.7 * 50,000,000 very unlucky DOS users = 1.02635e11
>(thats $102,635,000,000, OR ONE HUNDRED BILLION) more dollars
>spent in the computer industry to support Bill and his industrial
>strength proprietary prone cronies.
>
>(WARNING: ALL FIGURES ABOVE REPRESENT MY OWN OPINION AND HAVE NOT
>BEEN VERIFIED AS TO THEIR ACCURACY)
>
>
>Compare to an average full featured Linux system on CD-ROM complete
>with all networking tools, all development tools, X-windows, etc., with
>printed manual, some support, and maybe even a subscription to
>the Linux Journal, and COMPLETE WITH ALL THE SOURCE CODE:
>
>                                      average estimate of: UNDER $100.00

   PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU INSTALL LINUX, ALL OF YOUR CURRENT APPLICATIONS WILL
                BECOME WORTHLESS. FINDING EQUIVALENT REPLACEMENTS WILL BE
                DIFFICULT OR NONEXISTENT. IN ALL CASES THE CHOICES WILL BE
                DRAMATICALLY REDUCED.

>
>Of which, in some cases, portions of the costs are donated to the
>developers directly or to support the free and unfettered access
>to superior software.
>
>Any questions?

Yes. Why did you post such absurd upgrade costs.
Costs are not an "opinion". Why did you leave out the real costs involved in 
switching to Linux? It appears to me, that your intent is to deceive. I hope I 
am mistaken about that. It is wrong to provide such misinformation to people.
If you want me to use Linux, be honest about what would be involved. Tell me the 
advantages and the disadvantages. Tell me what you like about it not what you 
dislike about another OS. By giving me such obviously inaccurate information, I 
have to wonder, what else am I not being told?

>
>The above does assume you might want both MS and Borland compilers
>in case you're trying to write software libraries and want to test
>them with more than one compiler.  I have both myself.  I base
>the above figures on previous experience upgrading first from a
>286 to a 486, then a faster 496 later on.  However, note that
>
>ALL FIGURES ABOVE REPRESENT MY OWN OPINION AND HAVE NOT
>BEEN VERIFIED AS TO THEIR ACCURACY!
>
>Thank you.

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      Jim Rawlins
      rawlins@cybernetics.net
      Charlotte, NC
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