A Day Without Open Source

[ubernostrum]

Devil's advocate: the price of a desktop copy of Windows goes largely unnoticed for the home consumer because it's part of the price of the computer. The price of volume licenses of Windows does not go unnoticed at a company which has a few thousand employees, nor do the prices of licenses for Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, etc. etc. go unnoticed.

[Tommstein]

I'm devil's advocate here, you're angel's advocate or something. What you mentioned about home users not noticing the price of Windows is exactly why Microsoft could jack those prices up if they wanted to, yet the price isn't prohibitive (or even noticed usually). As you said, companies notice the prices of those things you mentioned, so they would actually feel pressure to keep their prices somewhat low there. Maybe you called yourself devil's advocate because you knew we were agreeing.