Phil Bull wrote: > Hi Matt, > > Hope work's going well. > > On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 10:19 +0100, Matthew Larsen wrote: >> Well thats the biggest threat to linux: If Microsoft charged >> reasonable licenses for their software (ie £20 for Vista >> Ultimate), FOSS would be blown out of the water. > > I really have to disagree on that point. In my experience, very few > people use Ubuntu because it's free. It is a factor, of course - > it makes it easier for people to try it out, and people aren't > worried about being out-of-pocket if they don't like what they see. > But it's almost never the real reason that they switched. > > Most of the people I know who have switched to Ubuntu have done so > because of the better security and speed improvement. These people > were sick to the back teeth of having to deal with viruses and > spyware, and were victims of the usual Windows slowdown which kicks > in a few months after installation. Having a cheaper Vista license > doesn't solve either of these problems.
My first serious use of linux was from a purchased retail box pack of Suse 9.1 from amazon, costing 60 uk pounds. -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
