There are people willing to buy second hand Mac's and register MOS, even though in the grand scheme of things a MOS license is about 40% higher priced than an OEM copy of Windows.
This misconception keeps getting repeated in different forms on many different Amiga forum sites.
You need to update your knowledge of the current licensing costs for MorphOS3.1, since the price reduction that accompanied the release of the MorphOS3.0 version.
To celebrate the much anticipated release of MorphOS 3.0, we are furthermore offering special three-tier pricing. The prices for a keyfile are 111.11 EUR for one PowerBook G4 system, 79 EUR for one eMac, Mac mini G4, Pegasos I, Pegasos II or PowerMac G4, and 49 EUR for one EfikaPPC system.
That is a direct quote from the Official MorphOS website, and is dated June 8th, 2012.
When I checked earlier this evening, the OEM version of Windows7 Pro costs about $91 U.S. dollars, or 70.77 Euros. The "Home" version of Windows7 is cheaper, but most people that know anything about computers don't want the stripped down "Home" version, which is why I used the Pro version. I don't even know what the OEM price is for the "Home" version of Windows7, so maybe your "40% higher priced than an OEM copy of Windows" is accurate for one of the versions of MorphOS3.1, but certainly not for the 49 Euro Efika version and maybe not for the 79 Euro version for the G4 eMac, G4 MacMini, Pegasos 1 & 2, or G4 PowerMac.
Just thought I would update you and anyone else who is not aware of the current pricing for MorphOS3.1.
I hope that the users who did not register MorphOS in the past because they did not like the 150 Euro price tag that it had prior to version 2.5, will reconsider registering their MorphOS computers now, since the price to register has come down as much as 66% for some instances. To make these prices even more attractive, consider that for the 9 updates that have been released since MorphOS2.0 was first released, not one of the updates has required additional license payment, and there are no plans in place that indicate that the MorphOS Dev. Team will ever charge for an update, though that is completely up to them and they can change their minds some time in the future if they wish. 9 updates and lots of new features at no additional charge, and no plans to charge for any of the future updates. This is something that everyone should consider when they think about the possibility of registering MorphOS3.1. It is a great deal and just keeps getting better with each new release.
I would not have brought up MorphOS3.1 in this thread, but just wanted to clear up a mistake made in an earlier post. I now return this thread to it's regularly scheduled ......
