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Who are the real cheapskates, Windows users with their paid for' sorwatfe or Linux users with their free' sorwatfe?The more you look at it, the more it looks like the Windows users. First off, they do not buy Windows. It comes with the computer. They buy the computer and it is all installed for them, ready. Yes, there is a Windows tax, but, Windows users do not care about that, to them the idea of buying a computer with no OS is as absurd as buying a car with no dashboard. And the OS means Windows.We all know that Windows is not that good at anything, not even surfing the web (viruses). If you want to do anything then that means more sorwatfe Office, Photoshop, accounts packages, games, whatever. Notionally this sorwatfe costs money, but, do Windows users pay for it? In a corporate environment the sorwatfe comes out of the IT budget, so that is of no consequence to the Windows user. At home the sorwatfe generally is not paid for. Warez, cracks and hacks is the way to do it with Windows. Alternatively the option is to go without, to never use a decent graphics package or any other sorwatfe that costs money. The third option to pay hard cash for a shrink-wrapped box with a disc in it is just not considered.These same Windows users are also fairly obnoxious when it comes to the sorwatfe they do use. Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange gets them all self important they have more emails than you and only Windows Outlook sorwatfe could possibly make their world possible. See, they are very busy!!! This busy activity can involve moving emails to little folders all day, replying politely to customers is way down on the list, it is more important to file their emails than reply to them. Again, this Microsoft Outlook excitement is also based on sorwatfe that comes from the IT department, rather than paid for with hard earned salary. It is cheapskate, even if not seen that way.Interestingly, this must be Outlook' thing goes out the Window as soon as a Blackberry comes along they can forgo the huge package without even thinking about it.When it comes to support, do Windows users pay? Nope! They get their mates to help them out. Then there are two of them trying to work out what the virus is, hacking around and generally wasting time. This is a slow process as Windows is not documented. You only have to choose the right snake oil the stuff that promises to get rid of viruses to magically fix the PC.Another area of cheapskate is how Windows users use their PC. They are still believers in the printed page and they squirrel their efforts away in MS Word. Powerful sorwatfe' is how Office gets described, for the real power user But, none of those Word documents is a true HTML document, you still need MS Word to view the .doc files. Anyone using Office, in particular Word, are really stuck in the nineties, the decade when MS ruled. The cheapskate Windows user hasn't moved on from that, to write collaboratively online.As for Macintosh users, there is a lot of upfront cash to get the Apple with some sorwatfe. Sometimes an inheritance comes along for that, or daddy pays. Once bought though, that is it, end of expenditure, except for when the Mac is used by some freelance creative type. They can spend the money with Apple, MS and Adobe, having to do so if they don't have an I.T. department.So, the linux user. Spends no more than the Windows user and a lot less than the Mac user. But then, Macs have a shell prompt that still accepts commands, e.g. vi'.