>
>Offering a Linspire machines instead of overpriced
>Micro$uck ones certainly fits that business model.
>This also suggests that any large discount reatil
>chain with suffcient share of the retail market that
>offers a non-M$ machine can effectively undermine the
>M$ cartel. What holds that cartel in business is its
>brand name recognition, as I gather from other
>postings in this thread, beyond which M$suck has
>little to offer. Even if a non-M$ platform is not
>fully compatible with M$ formats, that is not an issue
>becaouse most "normal people" do not need that
>compatibility, but they can easily be swayed by a
>lower price.
>
So how do Linspire owners run all those applications that are written to
run on Mac or Windows?
I mean, applications are not OS independent.
Joanna