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Re: [News] How Asustek Rejected a Monopoly Absuer and Chose Linux

____/ Mark Kent on Friday 09 November 2007 17:56 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> The Jonney Machine
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Asustek decided that the Windows operating system was out of the question.
>>| The licensing costs would have been the most expensive part of the
>>| computer. So it decided to use Linux and build its own user interface, and
>>| that became the most time-consuming part of the project.
>> `----
>> 
>> http://members.forbes.com/global/2007/1112/024a.html
>> 
> 
> Are we coming to the end of Microsoft's capability to manipulate forbes?
 
Don't worry about Forbes. They still cover Microsoft products like they are the
second comings. It's the only way writers and editors can get paid (bribed)
well.

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