Pay As You Play

Microsoft has a new idea. Instead of selling you a copy of Windows to run your computer, they want you to <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31850">rent a copy</a> and keep making you pay for it over and over again. This is supposed to help the poorer people access computers.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Microsoft has been reluctant to lower the price of its operating system to a level where people on a salary of $4,000 per annum can afford machines.</blockquote><br />n<br />nThe richest man in the world can't lower the price so poor people can access computers. [sarcasm]That wouldn't be right now, would it.[/sarcasm]<br />n<br />nI have a wonderful idea though. Instead of relying on Windows to run those computers, why not use a free Operating System like Linux. The price is right and we aren't doing any favors for Bill Gates. That's the way to go.<br />n<br />nDid you notice how much the Operating System jumps the price of the computer in the article. $300. And you wonder why Gates is the richest man in the world. Use Linux, screw Bill Gates.<br />n<br />n<b>In treating on the subject of the profits of capital, it is necessary to consider the princples which regulate the rise and fall of rent; as rent and profits, it will be seen, have a very intimate connexion with each other. David Ricardo</b>