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Still not quite following. You mean why don't the companies that develop kiosks use Linux instead of Windows? I don't know, but I'd imagine the cost of an OS li
by eli 12y ago
Still not quite following. You mean why don't the companies that develop kiosks use Linux instead of Windows? I don't know, but I'd imagine the cost of an OS license is a total non-issue compared to what they're charging the client.
As a potential consumer of a kiosk, I don't particularly care what OS it's running.
- toni 12y ago> I'd imagine the cost of an OS license is a total non-issue compared to what they're charging the client I think you'd be wrong if you knew how much the total sum of all Windows licenses cost in a large-scale deployment. That is why they usually install the kiosk with a decade-old Windows OS, usually Win2K or XP embedded which arguably costs less than a Win7 or 8.1 license. > As a potential consumer of a kiosk, I don't particularly care what OS it's running. I am afraid we are not particularly talking about consumers, but the companies that make these things.