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Catdog, I'm not dissagreeing that you are right in many ways about the reason WM6 is lisenced the way it is, but there is one major reason you missed. These people are making this software, not out of hte goodness of their hearts, but because THEY GET PAID TO DO IT! and if nobody funds it, they dont get paid and dont make hte software. Do you go to work every day for the fun of it? if tehy told you "Well you can keep your job, but we're not going to pay you anymore" would you still work there?
I do asgree with your points, I dont see why MS cant release the "WM6 upgrade edition" on a CD/DVD and let you just choose the processor/ram/whatever of your device and let it upgrade (this is what's been done with most OSes, but yes, back in the old days a computer ran 1 OS and you could not change it, at most you coudl upgrade it a *little*. The reason PDAs arent in the category with desktop upgrades, as stated in the past, is that there isn't enough space on the PDA's RAMdisk to hold a 2gb+ install. In the future, when PDA rom is pennies per MB or less, like on a desktop, then this will become possible, however right now it's a physical limitation (though as stated I dont see why you cant install the "WM6 upgrade edition" on your desktop and let it build you a rom from your PDA's specs and install it over AS.)
A lot of it is politics and companies jsut not caring, otherwise Dell would be releasing the WM6 rom for the axim because it's still being supported (ironically M$ is doing better, they stopped selling W98 and supported it with updates for something like 5 years later, dell isn't suporting updates for the Axim <1year later!)
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