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To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (61750)	10/20/2001 4:13:03 AM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (2) of 74651

It would be a very natural thing to do, if: 1) Customers were used to paying regularly. 2 Years is a very unnatural period. 2) The competition works the same. On Macintosh and Linux you don't have to pay after two years. There are many shops that sell Macintosh and Windows computers together, and I believe Macintosh has a bigger advantage than ever before: - Mac has less vira (yes, I know, it's because of market share and public image) - Mac is easier to use (that's what most people believe) - Mac doesn't expire - Mac is more likely to be Linux compatible in the future (it already is to some extent) - Mac design is cool - Mac can do whatever most people need to do. In cases where low cost is important, I would expect to find Linux with StarOffice 6 on consumer PCs in ordinary shops 2002 or 2003. In business, 2 years is far too little time. Remember that there are still tons of Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 machines out there being used daily. Lars.

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