[wellylug] Linuxant gone commercial!!!

[Enkidu]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 18:13:28 +1300 (NZDT), you wrote:
>
>On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Jethro Carr wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed, but linuxant.com, the makers of
>> the Conexant winmodem, is now charging $15US for their winmodem drivers.
>> You can still download drivers, but they only work at 14.4kbps.:O
>
>That's disgusting.
>
>A conexant 56k modem from Gyrotech (http://www.gyrotech.co.nz/modems.htm)
>costs $24.19, including GST.
>
>www.xe.com tells me that USD 15 is NZD 24.45.
>
>They expect people to pay more for the driver than for the hardware
>itself?
>
<devilsadvocate>

That's not unusual. I believe that it is true to say that IBM
made/makes more money out of their software than the iron it runs on.

Microsoft don't make much money out of hardware, but they sure do out
of software.

</devilsadvocate>

Cheers,

Cliff
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