HP/Compaq Presario and Linux

[Jon maddog Hall]

dan at rastech.com said:
> but no method of recovering them unless you paid $25 or $50 just seems wrong.

(sigh)

It is the old story that to throw a pre-pressed CD into a "consumer grade"
computer would probably cost less than $.05.  But they are going to make
100,000 of those "consumer grade" systems, so it is really a cost of
$5,000. (probably more like $10K by the time you add the line item to the
build order, QA, etc.)

So now they have to create a process to order those CDs, a mail fulfillment
firm to receive the money and mail them out, etc. etc. on an "exception
basis" that brings the cost up to $25. per CD....then someone tries to make
a profit center out of it, and it becomes $50.

It is amazing.

md
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