To this day, people are still surprised at what they can do on a Linux system -FREE! Twenty dollars for an old used computer if you don't already have one and a free download onto CD for the install and she's right, mate!
Now that I think about it, there were a couple of vendors that said they MIGHT shave off ten or twenty dollars to ship a system without the ‘Doze OS preinstalled and I couldn’t help but wonder: so why does MS always demand no less than one hundred twenty-five dollars for an Install CD and invalid COA?