Linspire chief exec Michael Robertson is visiting London on a mission to persuade system builders that there’s money to be made in Linux on the desktop.
Robertson guesstimates that it costs PC builders £125 or more in licensing fees to offer PCs with Windows XP and Office XP pre-installed. Linspire’s pitch is that system builders could offer machines with equivalent functionality using Linspire 5.0, Open Office and 12 months access to CNR (Linspire’s online software library) for £15 a pop. By reducing software costs, resellers could offer systems at much lower cost, the pitch goes.
Link: Channel Register
