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I thought Microsoft patented TCO
Authored by: tiger99 on Sunday, December 02 2012 @ 10:26 AM EST
Yes, all those royalties to Linus for the kernel, RMS for large parts of userland, Tridge for Samba, the Gnomes (does Miguel still get his cut?) or KDE developers for the desktop, etc. Having to pay royalties to so many people really does make Linux so very much more expensive than Windoze. Almost like trying to build a mobile phone, with royalties seemingly due to half the planet for various patented protocols etc.

Well, maybe in the alternate reality of Planet Bill and Planet Steve, where concepts such as altruism, generosity, cooperation, sharing, and generally being helpful to one another are completely alien, and percieved as threats to the entire ecosystem. Instead of global warming, Planet Bill is endangered by global sharing, but instead of the perceived risk to Earth from asteroids, Planet Steve is endangered by a quite different kind of flying object*, from within.....

(* We will soon see how closely my anonymous stalker is watching!)

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