The Fatal Error of Depending on ‘Proprietary’ Software
In a year lately, M$ will take in $20+ billion in licences for that other OS on client machines. An OS manages the resources of a computer or IT system, something GNU/Linux can do for a lot less. The typical PC with that other OS involves about $100 being paid for the licence to use the software with severe restriction. GNU/Linux costs something and that cost is easily recovered in the benefits of using it. Essentially it costs about what it costs to install it, a few minutes of labour. Globally, wages are between $0 and $100 per hour depending on the person, location and kind of work. On average people asked to do installations probably cost only a few dollars per installation if that much. Installations can also be automated so the world who have been buying PCs with that other OS has been wasting $100 or so per PC, for years. This is not getting good value for money or labour, paying for licences that are unnecessary to manage the resources of a PC.
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