Brother Dana is opining about the high cost of software in the computer purchase world and the possibility of lots more commudity PCs sharing one set of expensive software (ditch that Microsoft Office Dana, I've not bothered installing Office on my new(ish) laptop (Windows XP) or tower (Windows 2000) and am hapily sharing the documents I need using OpenOffice 1.1).

My buddy Brice noted last week the oddness of intellectual property costs exceeding hardware costs:

$12.84 Price of a Portable CD Player at WalMart
$13.80 Price of a Britney Spears CD at WalMart

Is this a statement about:

How Walmart exploits child labor overseas?

Or

How the RIAA exploits children in the US?

Niether. Its just a reality of the current world economy. The real question is who will be able to hold thier price longer