____/ Rick on Tuesday 25 September 2007 19:30 : \____
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:15:14 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> ____/ Rick on Tuesday 25 September 2007 11:40 : \____
>>
>>> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:45:04 +0000, uae491@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/09/24/
>>> globalisation_institute_windows_bundling/
>>>>
>>>> The Globalisation Institute, a European think-tank run by free market
>>>> advocates, today went on the offensive against Microsoft, calling on
>>>> the EU to require all PCs to be sold without operating systems.
>>>>
>>>> It says this will not make consumers' lives more difficult, as they
>>>> would simply be asked to insert an OS DVD when they first power the
>>>> system.
>>>>
>>> ahaha HAha HAHA ahha HAHha HHAhaha haHA hahaha... yeah, the general
>>> public installing operating systems... AHa HAh HAhaha HHA haHA hah aH
>>>
>>> (snip)
>>
>> You seem to be forgetting that installing a Linux distribution can
>> nowadays be as trivial as installing Acrobat Reader in Windows XP and
>> then choosing login username and password.
>
> .... CAN be ...
> .... USUALLY is ...
>
> ... NOT always.
> ... and installing vanilla Windows is not trivially easy.
>
>>
>> Mind you, Lenovo certifies some of its laptops for Fedora, Ubuntu, and
>> SUSE Linux (SLED 10). This means that they have tested to ensure that
>> everything will work out of the box given a CD-ROM of one of these
>> ditributions (at the very least). If you can point and click, you'll
>> soon get your PC in a state that is identical to that in which it
>> arrives from OEM.
>>
>> The OEMs do not configure your Web cam for you.
>>
>> The OEMs do not set up your Internet connection.
>>
> Yes? So?
> I would expect all of the hardware to work if an OS is installed from an
> OEM no matter what the OS. If this passes, then whatever software offered
> by the OEM had better install without VERY little user intervention.
Should the OEM decide/assume what O/S the buyer wants?
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