Just saw a blue screen of death In the top of a taxi cab. Had no idea these kind of signs were running Windows. Why are so many companies buying licenses for Windows when they could so easily use Linux ?

They must have custom software that's written for windows.

Again... They could have custom software for Linux and not have to pay for a crappy buggy OS.

Because, guess what? They have a choice to use what they want :D

The windows licence cost is probably insignificant against the digital signage software licence costs. And yet it still crashes.

Under the line linux is expensive for alot of Situations. If something is not working well you need an expensive linux guy instead of just 10 Minutes of Google. Also who knows if there are drivers for the used devices.

Is there not expensive Windows guys ?@Salmakis

There's a cab management suite thats been around forever, it usually gets used to advertise jobs to drivers, manage breaks, locate vehicles and record transactions. It's run on embedded XP for God knows how many years, and it has a huge C backend. It doesn't usually have too many issues, but these devices have to be approaching 15 years old now, its hardly surprising that there's the odd failure.

Marketing..

Support. Windows comes with at least 10 years oft bugfixing and upgrades whereas Linux has somehow 5 years....

@apisarenco because on Linux you actually control your computer and not the other way around.

Because they have a choice, and it's probably not expensive. Could also have everything automated and it doesn't need a Linux guru to maintain it.

@apisarenco at least it doesn't matter at which side of the partition is the unallocated space that you want to expand it with.

In most cases we dont want to control the computer, wen want it to do its job with most less possible work/time to spend on maintenancr

@apisarenco you can. Write the missing pieces yourself and share with the world. :D you have the soonest code for Christ's sake, you can do everything.

@apisarenco like a cat, you once again don't get the point. :D So you make no difference between open and closed source.