[Fsf-india] Why cost is not an issue

[Raghavendra Bhat]

Khuzaima posts :

> Why? To achieve  what is called in the  industry as "product lock-in."
> This is  a classic technique  used widely in the  proprietary computer
> industry (hardware and software) and Microsoft in particular excels at
> it.

"Product lock-in"  is achieved by *proprietary* vendors  of software via
many methods, the most significant being the route of bundling the OS by
the hardware  machine vendor on new  PCs/laptops/whatever.  Microsoft in
particular keeps  the other *proprietary*  OSes away using  its monopoly
position. It achieves  this via an agreement with  the hardware vendor/s
not  to load an  OS (its  or any  other) via  a third  party boot-loader
mechanism. An article re: this had appeared on the online version of the
Byte magazine (the  URL is in the archives of this  List from a previous
post).

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