__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Monday 11 June 2007 18:32 \__
> "I firmly believe this move won?t have any significant positive effect
> on the Linux market share"
>
> "it?s not just IdeaStorm that?s flawed; how Dell has implemented and
> rolled out Linux is also flawed"
>
> "Now that Dell is shipping PCs loaded with Ubuntu, there will be some
> who will expect Dell to support a whole raft of distros"
>
> "No free telephone support from Dell for Linux"
Halllooo? Yes, I restarted the application. Yes, I rebooted. Okay, I'll just
restore Windows from the QuickRestore CDs...
> "By selling Dell rigs to existing people already in the Linux loop,
> Canonical doesn?t risk having to face angry users and explain why Ubuntu
> won?t run their favorite Windows applications"
>
> http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3682576
>
> Adrian Kingsley-Hughes a Microsoft Mouthpieces?
...Probably just trolling for traffic. Based on what Dana Blankenhorn said
recently, these bloggers are pressured to attract traffic, even if that
means drawing people in on an emotional basis. All that trolling got Adrian
a lot of inbound links. They get paid for the number of page impressions and
comments.
> http://tinyurl.com/yrkfh2
>
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/browse_thread/thread/bfd8019a9cd383a9/86f235a5b703c264?lnk=st&q=&rnum=3&hl=en#86f235a5b703c264
Do not feed the troll
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| Linux people tend to look up and understand technical issues, and even
| legal ones such as the differences between patent, copyright, and
| trademark. If you've been reading Linux sites and software licenses
| for a while, you pick up the basics. And magazines don't hire fact
| checkers any more, and if a magazine pays a columnist less, doesn't
| edit his work, and calls it a "blog" they can hold it to a lower
| standard of quality anyway.
|
| [...]
|
| Please. Do not feed the troll. Comment forms equal hits and money.
| If you must respond, email the publication's editor (be sure to put
| in "NOT FOR PUBLICATION") and post your comments--use "nofollow"
| links if you choose to link--on your own blog or on a competing
| site. The Mainstream IT Media is becoming more and more driven by
| raw traffic numbers, and as editors see good results from trolling,
| they'll tend to rely on it more.
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