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From: "Geo" 

"John Beamish"  wrote in message
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> Cheaper OS?  JQP doesn't buy the OS, he buys the hw/sw package from Dell,
> BestBuy, etc. and Dell, BestBuy, HP aren't going to push Linux because
> there's no incentive for them to do that.

Yes there is, as computers go below the $500 mark the cost of Windows is very
significant. As they drop below $300 it will become impossible to compete with
Linux based systems. and JQP is very very good at shopping, that's why
winmodems because the norm.

Geo.

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