[support-gang] [sugar] Microsoft

[Jim Gettys]

On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 17:56 -0700, david at lang.hm wrote:

> > It's doubtful the free software community would do what Microsoft is
> > demanding: asking the manufacturer to add 5-10% to the cost of the hardware
> > to facilitate their efforts, nor would the free software community charge a
> > $3.00 license fee for the use thereafter.
> 
> I missed where the hardware was being changed and the cost going up to 
> support this. what I read was that the boot firmware was being modified so 
> that it could dual-boot into windows.
> 
> please point me at the additional cost involved.

Huh?  We haven't changed the hardware....

                        Jim

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Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org>
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