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Re: [News] When 'Windows Tax' Affects Entire Clusters

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

When did Microsoft get taxing power like the IRS?

,----[ Quote ]
| Floating around the office last week I took an inventory, we have 12 | machines there, 5 of them running Linux. However I have 12 Windows
| Licences.
| | [...]
| | Even the IRS isn't as nasty, at least the IRS's tax rate isn't 40%
| in most cases. That is what that figure comes out to when youf
| igure the prices of the 5 machines minus 300 dollars per machine.

Ah, but, those Windwos licence's /didn't/ cost $300 each - unless they weren't OEM copies, but rather retail, off the shelf copies...in which case £150 each *IS* cheap.



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