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- From: bpb9204@tamsun.tamu.edu (Brent)
- Subject: Re: "official" FSF position on apple
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.181402.6972@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Organization: Texas A&M Univ., Inc.
- References: <1992Sep15.051438.28757@uwm.edu> <frain.716570605@depot.cis.ksu.edu.cis.ksu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:14:02 GMT
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- frain@cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain) writes:
- |anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
- |
- |> They charge $2000 for a computer that costs $400 to make. It sounds
- |> like they make a lot more money on their hardware than software.
- |
- |This is only blatantly obvious, since every computer manufacturing
- |company in the world does it.
- |
- |Sure, once you have the schematics and the parts list, the machine is
- |actually quite cheap. But a lot of research and development goes into
- |getting these two things.
-
- And, of course, this is why clones are so cheap. The designs are "out
- there" and since the machine has had very little architectural changes
- in the past N years, the R&D costs are pretty much driven away. Now
- that development costs are negligent, they can make machines for cheap
- using their existing designs.
-
- I am in full support of what Jerry just said. So to the FSFers that want
- to claim Apple's making a killing off their machines, check out other
- companies also. They aren't very different.
-
- -Brent
- bpb9204@tamsun.tamu.edu
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