On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:48:36 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
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>Linux is Dell's big chance
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>| "What do you want?" Dell asked its users. "Linux on our desks and
>| in our laps, please," they replied. "We hear you," said Dell, "but
>| we don't want to disappoint you, so you can't have it just yet."
>| Sadly, the users are disappointed anyway.
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>http://opinion.zdnet.co.uk/leader/0,1000002208,39286126,00.htm?r=2
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>Related:
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>Dell 4Q Earnings Slide 33 Percent on Weak Laptop, Notebook Sales
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>| Dell Inc.'s fourth-quarter profits plunged 33 percent
>| because of weak sales of laptops and notebooks, and the computer maker
>| still faces an unresolved federal accounting probe, customer service
>| complaints, several shareholder lawsuits and stiff competition from rivals.
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>http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070302/earns_dell.html?.v=6
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>Dell cocks a deaf ear to Linux at its online listening post
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>| The first was that senior personnel at Dell demanded keys to the
>| darkened rooms that computer companies now maintain for executives
>| suffering from panic attacks. These rooms are specially hardened
>| to resist missives from Steve Ballmer, the combative CEO of
>| Microsoft, who takes a dim view of open-source software.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| So now we know the value of crap. You read it here first.
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>http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,2025848,00.html
Dell is gutless, like MS and its crawling shills.
The tough ones are all the Linux community guys who have put up with
the evolution of Linux and sent in bug reports and helped developers
to make Linux better. My hat's off to all you.
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