__/ [ William Poaster ] on Wednesday 28 February 2007 12:00 \__
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:36:39 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> So, How Does It Feel To Have Been "Had"
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | In a nutshell, Mike Dell fires his CEO, takes control of Dell again and
>> | starts "A New Era of Innovation." He has his people put up a website
>> | asking US what we want in a Dell Computer. In no particular order, the
>> | tens of thousands of responses were:
>> |
>> | Linux on the Desktop
>> | Dual Boot capabilities with Linux as an option FOSS offered instead of
>> | proprietary garbage (read OpenOffice in place of MS Office)
>> | Computers with No OS installed
>> | Less or even no AOL/Earthlink/Name-Your-most-hated-spyware-here.
>> |
>> | The community, upon digesting the information from the site and the
>> | dozens of articles resulting from said information, went Bat-Crap.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://blog.lobby4linux.com/archives/104-So,-How-Does-It-Feel-To-Have-Been-Had.html
>
> I'm in the market for a laptop, & was toying with the idea of getting a
> Dell because they genuinely appeared interested in installing linux on
> their machines. If they're only going to install MicroNovell on them, I'm
> no longer interested. I'll look elswhere for either any without an OS
> installed & install my own, or with pre-installed perhaps one of these:
> http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/products/laptops/
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.
The Free Software movement was born out of people's desires to bring control
to the people, not the companies, which may comprise people, yet they
contain and convey no human character. It's not all about nanny countries.
Authorities interact with companies, so companies become out nannies as
well. You just need to show them who is in charge or else you will get
abused and your human right miused. Elevated pricing, for instance, leads to
harder labour, more waste (buh-bye Mother Nature), and a widening gap
between the poor and rich. The more traditional struggle for freedom has
transformed into a digital one.
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