Verily I say unto thee, that thufir spake thusly:
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:27:31 -0700, The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
>> It's about 1% of business. How much *cost*, I don't know, but Dell
>> in particular apparently has to set up entirely different assembly
>> lines for its Ubuntu machines.
>
> Yes, but not for technical reasons, that's a requirement created by
> how Microsoft handles OEM's.
It's a ridiculous situation, if you think about it. It's be like Ford
requiring separate production lines for exactly the same model of car,
depending on whether the eventual customer was going to fill it with
fuel from either Texaco or Shell.
In exactly the same way that it should be none of Ford's business what
brand of fuel customers pump into their cars, it should equally be none
of Microsoft's (or the OEM's) damned business what software customers
install into their computers.
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K.
http://slated.org
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