"David Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How is that better? Nothing in your car depends upon what tires you have > on. But all of the rest of the software on your computer is dependent upon > your choice of OS.
Which cars let you install another engine as easily as you can install a new operating system? Admit the analogy sucks, like all car-computer analogies invariably do. > I don't really know why and I don't particularly care. I think it has a > lot to do with support costs and may also have to do with the type of deals > Microsoft offers. Microsoft apologists always assume that training cost for Windows users are zero, that people "know" Windows from the start. If that was true, there would not be a multi-million market in Windows user support. > The point is, they do. And there's nothing unusual, immoral, or > problemmatic about it. If you don't think the total package is worth the > total package price, buy elsewhere. But when Microsoft were doing their illegal arm-wringing of dealers, there was no "elsewhere" to go. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
