Posted by Andy Dingley on 11/15/20 11:46

Michelle Steiner wrote:

> Getting back to the matter at hand, spending $200 in order to run a $29
> piece of software does not make financial sense to me.

Why not? Total cost of $229 to do something useful, or $200 for a bare
OS that doesn't do _anything_ useful on its own ?

Quite possibly I _am_ running Windows solely to use Agent. There's no
much else I do on the Windows machine - Photoshop maybe (which I do
very rarely), but everything else happens on a Debian box.

"Is Usenet access woth $229?" is a good question, but quite different.
The assertion "It can never be worth 7x <foo> for an OS to merely run
an app costing <foo>" isn't itself supportable at all.

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