[Klug-general] Jolibook On Sale

[David Halliday]

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/11/jolibook-goes-on-sale-in-the-uk-for-279/

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.

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But perhaps this thought is a bit closed and out of date.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.

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.

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).

Right I have rambles too much on this, what do others think?
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