On Wednesday 07 March 2007 00:24 Mark Kent wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Waiting for Dell
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>>| The major desktop players keep flirting with the Linux community,
>>| but then they never go all the way. Take, for instance, Lenovo.
>>| Last summer, Lenovo agreed to preload Novell Inc.'s SLED 10 (SUSE
>>| Linux Enterprise Desktop) on its ThinkPad T60p mobile workstation.
>>|
>>| Then, Lenovo started retreating, and hemming that they really didn't
>>| mean that they would offer it pre-installed. No, no, it's just that
>>| you could install SLED on the T60p if you really wanted to. Today,
>>| if you look at the T60p listing, you'll find your only operating
>>| system choices are Microsoft's Windows Vista Business and XP
>>| Professional.
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>> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8312248169.html
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>> The mafia-like contracts and explicit threats must be playing a role.
>>
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> I've just realised something massively important - this is *huge*.
> Microsoft's efforts to stop Linux getting onto the desktop are having
> the *wrong effect*, they're actually just killing the desktop
> themselves, completely and utterly. Rather than give some ground to
> free software, and come back with a competing offering, what they're
> doing is merely forcing the user-base to look at *far more radical*
> alternatives to Windows than just another OS. If it were just another
> OS on the Desktop, MS would have a chance, but when everyone is on some
> kind of thin client, they lose, 100%. And, the desktop is dead as a
> dodo.
>
> I hate it when I have insights.
Don't hate it - you are likely right.
Soon, they'll all be in either thin clients or very-thin clients...
... except for you Linux geeks..............and me!
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