Wal-Mart's Ultra-Efficient Linux PC Sells Out
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| Well...after all the naysaying, it took about a week for Wal-Mart's $200
| green Linux PC to sell out of their online warehouses. Of course, it probably
| isn't selling quite that fast in stores.
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http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1130/
$200 Everex gPC desktop featuring gOS proves to be popular
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| That $200 Everex gPC that Walmart has been advertising has proven to be quite
| the hit in its online store, currently being out of stock but can still be
| picked up at select brick and mortar locations.
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http://tech.blorge.com/Structure
%20/2007/11/11/200-everex-gpc-desktop-featuring-gos-proves-to-be-popular/
Related:
Wal-Mart Starts Selling Linux PCs for $198
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| Almost the Google PC: Everex gPC available at Wal-Mart
|
| On Thursday, WalMart begins selling the Everex Green gPC TC2502, a $198,
| low-power, Linux-based PC designed primarily for running Web 2.0
| applications.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9807133-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
Linux PC vendor to track pirate Windows installations
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| Everex will know if you install a dodgy Microsoft OS
|
| [...]
|
| There, as part of a crackdown on infringing copies of Microsoft
| Windows, "regulatory agencies are checking to see that Linux actually works,"
| he said.
|
| Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth added, "We can't tell the difference between
| an Ubuntu user who installed for themselves or one who used a system from an
| OEM."
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/operating-systems/nix/news/index.cfm?newsid=6001
Intensified Battle Lines
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| Some years back Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA) spokesperson
| Steven D'Aprano had posed a most intriguing question, "If Microsoft
| has a problem with piracy, it shouldn't be blamed on OEMs who sell
| PCs with Linux pre-installed or no operating system at all. Should
| we discourage supermarkets from selling plain bread, because
| shoppers might steal butter from elsewhere?"
|
| [...]
|
| For long now a tag has been associated with Linux. Industry players
| and resellers say Linux has become a smart, official, cheap and
| convenient form of piracy. The charge, is however, outrightly
| rejected by the Linux vendors.
|
| At their end, open source vendors will not miss an opportunity to
| assert that anyone who has benefited out of piracy is the
| proprietary vendors, like Microsoft.
|
| [...]
|
| Partners are already moving close to Linux vendors for various
| reasons. The days to come will, therefore, offer interesting
| battle lines unfolding between MS and open source players.
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http://www.channeltimes.com/India/Columns/Intensified_Battle_Lines/551-80562-751.html
http://tinyurl.com/37n6do
I use GNU/Linux... and I am HAPPY with it!
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| Two-three months back, there was a news in rediff.com which said that
| the biggest girls school in Kerala has changed the policy and they
| use GNU/Linux for teaching. Those small girls learning computer,
| learn GNU/Linux only and they find it very easy. As they have
| never used MS Windows, they are unbiased.
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http://cleverviv.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/i-use-gunlinux/
Microsoft Exec Admits That Company Benefits From Piracy
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| Jeff Raikes, head of the company's business group, said at a
| recent investor conference that while the company is against
| piracy, if you are going to pirate software, it hopes you pirate
| Microsoft software. He cited the above reasoning, noting that
| users of pirated Microsoft software are likely to purchase from
| the company later on.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20070312/165448.shtml
Chinese attitude on buying Vista
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| I've mentioned above,the price of Vista is higher than RMB2000 (about
| USD257) may not shake users in developed countries, but do you know it
| is equal to the average monthly salary in China's economic center
| Shanghai!So please take this fact into consideration before
| criticize our behavior of buying pirate softwares.
|
| recent survey of public opinion from China's portal NetEase shows that 81%
| of netizens think Microsoft is forcing them to use pirate Vista...
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http://ya.iyee.cn/2007/02/chinese-attitude-on-buying-vista.html
Why Piracy Hurts Open Source
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| "...John looks at this from a different direction. He shows you why
| software piracy hurts Open Source software--the free stuff you are using."
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http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000266
Microsoft seals its Windows and opens the door to Linux
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| Now comes the really interesting question. With Vista's activation
| technology, Microsoft has the power to stamp out piracy everywhere. But
| will it choose to do so everywhere? After all, if folks in China or
| Thailand or Ethiopia have to pay for Vista, they won't be able to run
| it because they won't be able to afford the licence fee. In which case
| they may finally wake up to the attractions of free software such as
| Linux - and it's easy to imagine what that will do to Microsoft's
| plans for world domination.
|
| It's a delicious prospect: Microsoft impaling itself on the horns
| of a dilemma it has created for itself. Roll on Thursday.
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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1956941,00.html
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