Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ 7 ] on Friday 28 July 2006 20:58 \__
>
>> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/07/28/elonex_dell/
>>
>> The back handers Dell$ receive is rumoured to have been
>> responsible for killing Elonex. The backhander system that
>> allows micoshaft and intel$ give to an unprofitable organisation
>> like Dell$ in the USA to undercut EU rivals should
>> have been referred to EU anti-trust commission, and they should
>> have fined Dell$, Micoshaft, and Intel$ tripple
>> damages for killing of Elonex.
>>
>> These EU regulators are totally asleep when it comes
>> to protecting their own businesses from these highly
>> illegal unfair competition. But they are willing to go all out and
>> strike at memory makers from Korea for shipping RAM
>> because they didn't invoice the shipping cost when
>> selling RAM to EU buyers.
>
> Dell certainly got their revenge today. Yet another laptop bursted into
> flames.
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/31808593@N00/200348345/in
set-72157594215009904/
>
> (many more in this Flickr photo gallery)
>
> I read somewhere that Dell knew about 20 such incidents (or faulty
> laptops), but kept it all in the dark. Expect laptops sales to plummet for
> Dell. Nobody wants that kind of flameware on his/her lap. Greed for price
> (spyware a possibility too), greed for cheaper components, inclination for
> poor QA. I hope that Dell's contracts with AMD and Linux sales work out
> nonetheless.
Dell may yet find ways to harm Linux and AMD.
My guess is that Dell$ is in league with micoshaft all the way
claiming desktops are not selling and then withdrawing
desktops from markets while at the same time making huge
inroads into server market, and competitors like eSyS and a dozen
others take big chunks of the Linux desktop market by shifting thousands
of Linux pre-installed machines.
There is some 100 million linux machines out there at least.
Its not a small pie.
If manufacturers followed simple rules like the Gamix specifications,
then there are potentially hundreds of millions of users
that could be instantly created within the existing market
for all kinds of new products and services.
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