[lbo-talk] Linux, was New Imperialism? Imperialism has been monopoly

[joanna bujes]

No, what I meant was If the other OS makers follow suit and charge 
subscription fees, what would stop Microsoft from holding on to its 
monopoly.

I guess I'm also puzzled at the thought of people having PCs without 
broadband, but that might just be because work-wise I couldn't live 
without it.

Joanna

Colin Brace wrote:


> joanna bujes wrote:
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>> Why wouldn't it get away with doing just that?
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> Well, if a MS OS was based on a subscription model, presumably it 
> would depend on people have broadband access to pull it off, which is 
> far from universal yet, because the OS would need to periodically 
> check to see whether you were paid up or not.
>
> I doubt that people will accept this. You buy a PC from Wal-Mart or 
> Dell for $600 and then have to pay MS ~$100 a year to use it???
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