Will economic crash boost open source desktops?

Probably yes ... but not so much. Anyway it seems HP puts Linux on business PCs. What means that? Not much ... but it happen because of economic crash. So, probably, more people will interact with OpenSource software.

HP says that it is offering SLED 10 on the machine only in the United States, and estimates that the street price of a base PC will come to around $519.

Cheap price if is coming from HP ... :)

Read more here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/11/hp_linux_biz_pc/