Linux, FOSS, and the Time-Honored Tradition of Charging More for Less

Posted by tuxchick on Jul 11, 2009 8:40 AM EDT
Linux Today; By Carla Schroder
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This was a real breakthrough, because for the first time little notebooks were actually priced small. Put Linux on them and you had an inexpensive, acceptably-performing, very portable machine plus the vast world of Free and free-of-cost software at your fingertips. But then the rot set in, as it so often does in the commercial, proprietary computer world, and especially when Microsoft is involved...

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