Yes, all those royalties to Linus for the kernel, RMS for large parts of
userland, Tridge for Samba, the Gnomes (does Miguel still get his cut?) or KDE
developers for the desktop, etc. Having to pay royalties to so many people
really does make Linux so very much more expensive than Windoze. Almost like
trying to build a mobile phone, with royalties seemingly due to half the planet
for various patented protocols etc. Well, maybe in the alternate reality of
Planet Bill and Planet Steve, where concepts such as altruism, generosity,
cooperation, sharing, and generally being helpful to one another are completely
alien, and percieved as threats to the entire ecosystem. Instead of global
warming, Planet Bill is endangered by global sharing, but instead of the
perceived risk to Earth from asteroids, Planet Steve is endangered by a quite
different kind of flying object*, from within.....
(* We will soon see
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