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Re: Thoughts On Dell's Linux 'Hoax'

On Mar 1, 1:32 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>
> They are not preinstalling /anything/. They 'certify' -- whatever that means
> -- SUSE Linux for the hardware. Adding insult to injury, Linux laptops
> without 'Windows tax' will be more expensive than laptops with Windows
> preloaded.
>
> Dell has changed absolutely nothing. It was a PR stunt which deceived the
> media. All the requests from their new Web site got ignored as far as I can
> see.
>
> But... there's a win here. Not only have we (yet again) discovered Dell's
> true colours, but we have also shown them (and the observers, including
> journalists, in their site) that people genuinely want Open Source and
> Linux. It is only the industry's greed that suppresses and ignores people's
> desires, for it makes the most money from overpriced resource pigs,
> ccompanies with pricey addons.
>
In fairness to Dell, they are between a rock and a hard place here.
They just cannot afford to upset Redmond.  I am sure Dell would like
to free itself from Microsoft's death-grip and install 'commodity'
software which could be Open Office running under a 'Dell' Linux.

I suspect that Dell is even too scared stiff to say that the Windows
loaded computers it sells are Linux compatible (the dialup modem and
the video chipset being the main determing factors).


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