On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:11:10 UTC, Roy Schestowitz
<newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
-> __/ [ Geico Caveman ] on Wednesday 16 August 2006 06:32 \__
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-> > Roy Schestowitz wrote:
-> >
-> >> SUSE Linux ThinkPads target chip designers
-> >>
-> >> ,----[ Quote ]
-> >> | Individual users will only be able to buy T60p laptops with empty
-> >> | hard drives, though they will save US$100 by not needing Windows,
-> >> | Iori said.
-> >> |
-> >> | [...]
-> >> |
-> >> | "You won't be paying Microsoft a penny," Iori said. Those users can
-> >> | also buy support for SLED 10 from Novell for US$50 a year.
-> >> |
-> >> | The new laptop is aimed at electronics engineers and chip
-> >> | designers.
-> >> `----
-> >>
-> >> http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=48668769&rid=-50
-> >
-> > Not yet, apparently :
-> >
-> > http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/notebooks/thinkpad/t-series/tseries_byo_t60p.html
->
-> At the top, as well as in the (very narrow choice) tickbox selection:
->
-> "Lenovo recommends Windows® XP Professional."
That statement is there because of contracts they have to sell
windoze. It is not anyone's real opinion. microsuck has to pay
people to get the opinion they want. This is cloaked as a marketing
expense but its just a bribe and extortion combined. Of course the
average user has no idea that it is all lies.
Mark
->
-> How much does that statement pay them? This bias is clearly meaningless as
-> nothing by Windows is _even made available_. Give them a few weeks to modify
-> the page. Something like this < http://tinyurl.com/f4cbp >.
->
->
-> Seller*: What would you like to eat?
->
-> * Apple
-> * Organce
-> * Banane
->
-> Seller recommends fruit.
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