____/ damon on Thursday 24 January 2008 22:40 : \____
> Asus put out a very small laptop last year called the eee pc. It runs a
> variety of Xandros. I suggested that a friend get one so he could check
> email and use websites that run Java apps when out of his house. So he
> did and he loves it.
>
> He loves the reactions he gets from people at pubs when he sits at the
> bar using it. He two sons, ages 10 and 18. I asked him how they liked
> using it and to my astonishment, he said the boys couldn't use it. He
> said he didn't want it getting "all gunked up with spyware, viruses and
> adware" from visiting dodgy websites, opening random attachments and
> downloading sketchy software like has happened to every other computer
> he's let them use.
>
> I tried to explain how unlikely that was with his Xandros OS, but he
> wouldn't believe me! Besides, he likes having an excuse to keep the Eee
> pc to himself!
>From something I was told by Xandros, this isn't Xandros per se and it's fully
controlled by Asus. In fact, it seems likely that Microsoft receives not even
a penny through that deal with Xandros... at least not when you purchase an
Eee PC. When it comes to Xandros and Scalix, that's a different story.
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