You also have to bear in mind that those 1 year free norton trials etc often aren't free. Norton will pay to get onto the install. So those free trails help to drive the price down. <div><br></div><div>Perhaps the best argument for OSS then is pay extra £20 now and not have pay anything else later</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 November 2010 11:50, Luc Tidy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luc.tidy@gmail.com">luc.tidy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Well, firstly lets be clear that what we have here in change of
price is between two different netbooks. A £20 disparity isn't that
much of a thing between sales, especially considering the RRP for
the Acer Aspire One is £279.99. <br>
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In regards to saving money for having a *nix install, yeah I agree
with the statement. Now after sales service and the like, I'll
happily pay for. I question though what, if anything, they are
developing specifically for the laptop. Quite frankly it would be
nice if they develop anything, or a fix, that they make it available
in the spirit of OSS.<br>
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In regards to what you get, there is freeware out there. When they
say it bundles office and the like, or (though I haven't seen it in
a while) a year free Norton there are still alternatives for those
OpenOffice, LibreOffice, AVG, Avast! etc. As for access to OSS
software, I'm all for supporting this and providing or donating
where I can, but I argue where the funding goes, and if it does go
to a sector of OSS developers which ones?<br>
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Quite frankly the OS doesn't grab me, though I can understand its
appeal.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 22/11/10 11:27, David Halliday wrote:
</div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div class="h5"><a href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/11/jolibook-goes-on-sale-in-the-uk-for-279/" target="_blank">http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/11/jolibook-goes-on-sale-in-the-uk-for-279/</a>
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<div>I would like to buy one of these. But I already have more
hardware than I use and less and less time to play with it as
time goes buy. I can't justify it to myself to buy more
hardware. Damn shame.</div>
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<div>I'm intrigued that the OSS offering costs £20 more than the
MS competitor. But perhaps this thought is a bit closed and out
of date. Perhaps our perceptions need to move forward with the
times and the contemporary business/lifestyle requirements.
Previously people have had the thought "Sell hardware
with Linux and you save on OS costs". In the case of suppliers
who sell hardware with *no* OS (I remember this being roughly a
£70 saving at one point in time) a few years ago there was a
saving.</div>
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<div>But today you are paying for the polish and support. The main
stream and business aren't going to accept mailing lists and
forums for support of their OS (Even if most of the main stream
don't know what an OS is). So for Linux (or rather the support
& polish) does have a cost. </div>
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<div>And for £20 more, it's support across the board for all
hardware, software etc... (to an extent) on that platform. Which
is different from cost of OS (included with hardware),
then separate productivity suites etc... That and the shop
selling it can't make more money from Office, AV and all the
other extra software you sell on an MS/Apple platform. So
perhaps the £20 shouldn't just be seen as helping an OSS based
project but as you are getting a lot more in that package and
the ability to get more OSS software from their repositories
(servers and bandwidth which have to be paid for).</div>
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<div>Right I have rambles too much on this, what do others think?</div>
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