Posted by Michelle Steiner on 11/24/24 11:46

In article <1146581820.785311.184280@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>,
"Andy Dingley <dingbat@codesmiths.com>" <dingbat@codesmiths.com>
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 ?

Because I just cannot envision any news reader being worth so much
money--and if all one is using Windows for is to run the newsreader,
then the total cost of running the newsreader is the cost of Windows
plus the cost of the news reader.

> "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.

But I didn't say "an app costing <foo>"; I was talking about a specific
app (in context), used for a specific purpose.

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