^^^^^^^^^^^^^The day Red Hat or Suse can charge enough for their products to kick some back to Dell to pay for their support costs is the day Dell starts offering it preinstalled. Obviously that point is nowhere near.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's sort of a red herring argument. Linux doesn't require anything like the amount of upkeep that a windows machine does.
It's about on par with a mac. OS 9 or 10. They just don't need much upkeep.
The most upkeep that I do personally is my browser cache. Talk about a backbreaker.
Hey, is your spyware software up to date? :-)
Linux might make sense if a browser cache is all you have to support. That could potentially explain their 3% market share.