[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: OpenSource articles glore...

[Robert Citek]

On Thursday, Feb 3, 2005, at 14:46 US/Central, Steve Baker wrote:
> You are missing the people who never buy a 'new' computer at all - but
> instead incrementally upgrade.
>   ...
> People who work like that may *well* have a kick-ass CPU/memory/etc
> but never felt the need to upgrade the OS.

True.  But how many of those people are there?  My guess would be a 
small, even negligible, percentage of the total number of computer 
users.  I would imagine that most people are not tech-savvy enough to 
do what you (and probably what most of the people on this list) can do. 
  Therefore, they may find it cheaper to hold on to that original Win98 
computer for as long as possible and then buy a new computer with a 
newer OS.  But that's just a guess.  Which is why I'm asking if anyone 
know of some "hard" numbers.

Regards,
- Robert
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