Rex Ballard wrote:
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> What could Dell, HP, and Lenovo do if they invested $1 billion in
> promoting, selling, and supporting Linux workstations?
In the short term, the payola from M$ for advertising "XXXX recommends
Microsoft Windows XP" is just too good to turn up their noses at, and
M$ can cut it off at the first sign of mutiny with no effective
comeback. This could drive the big OEM's into Chapter 11. I suspect
too that the Irish Republic is the biggest beneficiary of this as this
payola would be channelled through Irish subsidiaries at cheap
corporate tax rates, thus bilking the taxation systems of other nations.
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