Re:Now how many people will actually buy one? (Score 1)

I believe that the primary market for the Linux boxes consists of Windows users. Face it, the personal computer has (in practicality) already reached saturation in most of the US, and thus most people purchasing computers for their homes or small offices are already PC owners, most likely running Windows. Now, one cannot deny that, at least to some extent, piracy and illegal duplication of the Windows OS software actually buttresses Microsoft's monopoly, since it is easy (and extremely common) for home and small business users to purchase one copy of Windows and duplicate it across all of their computers. The reality is clear: such users wanting to save a few hundred dollars per computer will opt for the Linux machines. But this only applies to the households that have multiple PCs. Let's next consider the case in which a household with an obsolete PC wants to purchase a new machine and toss the old one. Chances are, while it may be legal to move the Windows OS software to the new machine, the user will have to purchase a second copy of Windows anyway. Why? Because most PCs sell with Windows preinstalled. Microsoft sells more copies of Windows than there are users of Windows using this strategem, ultimately forcing users to pay Microsoft for more licenses than they need (ever try to buy a Dell that doesn't run Windows?). And selling Linux PCs seems to be one of the few reasonable ways to get around it.