Eric Raymond thinks that the fall in PC prices will eventually make Windows too expensive. But how can something viewed as being essential be too expensive?
Case in point: the Oil Crisis of the early 1970’s. Where once oil companies might have competed on price, they now could basically charge anything they wanted — and demand went up. Even if it becomes a situation where every copy of Windows comes with a free PC to run it, price does not determine demand.
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