Costs: Wintel vs. Open Source

“One of the true wonders of our age is the ability lots of
otherwise reasonable people have to tell you with every evidence of
believing it themselves that PCs cost a few hundred bucks and last
for years–and then go off to spend well over a thousand replacing
last year’s product.

“That’s not, mind you, the only reality defying miracle in
sight: the realities of both mass production and retail
distribution mean that fully assembled products always retail for
less than the sum of their parts–except among Wintel
enthusiasts…”

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