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Re: [News] [OSS] Dell Now Pressured to Preinstall Mozilla Firefox (Not Just in the UK)

__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Friday 04 May 2007 11:30 \__

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Firefox users urge Dell to preinstall the browser
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| On IdeaStorm, the Firefox preinstall petition has collected more than
>>| 70,000 votes since its introduction Feb. 19, a day after the
>>| opinion-collecting site went live. Only the pleas for OpenOffice,
>>| with more than 96,000, and preinstalled Linux, with 132,000, have
>>| collected more votes.
>> `----
>> 
>>
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id%3b257374685%3bfp%3b16%3bfpid%3b1
> 
> There is a huge amount of suppressed demand out there.  It would appear
> that the software most people want is the Open Source stuff, so it makes
> sense to offer Linux machines with it all on anyway, now.

Looking back at the antitrust memos from Iowa, you'll find that Microsoft
used its OEM contracts to virtually force preinstallation of IE, before they
made it an integral and irremovable part of the O/S. That alone should give
people (including Michael Dell) food for thought.

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