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ZaReason (and Other Independents) Outshine the Big Boys
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| Dell, ASUS, Acer, and all the other bandwagoning coattail riders are getting
| all the headlines for selling desktop Linux preinstalls, especially on this
| new netbook wave. Sure, having Tier 1 vendors on board means wider exposure
| for Linux, and for a lot of people more legitimacy. It's exciting and cool,
| and the price and feature competition is a nice thing.
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| But let's not forget that these bandwagoning coattail-riding party-crashers
| are very late to the party, and have been whining and foot-dragging and
| making excuses for years why they couldn't sell Linux PCs. If you wanted to
| buy Linux preinstalled on a computer, you had to find an independent shop.
| Which wasn't easy, because if they also sold Windows then they were under the
| eye of Sauron just like the big vendors, and were punished for selling Linux.
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http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2008/09/zareason-outshi.html
Don't underestimate the factor of threats [1,2]. Many OEM did not 'snitch'.
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[1] "I’m thinking of hitting the OEMs harder than in the past with
anti-Linux. ... they should do a delicate dance"
- --Joachim Kempin, Microsoft OEM Chief
[2] "We should whack them [Dell over GNU/Linux dealings], we should make sure
they understand our value."
- --Paul Flessner, Microsoft
Recent:
ZaReason's MegaLap is a desktop replacement with an Ubuntu twist
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| MegaLap, a notebook computer from ZaReason, a company that builds and sells
| computer systems that run Ubuntu, is bound to give its owner bragging rights
| at any LAN party, especially with how loud the system can get. It has the
| hallmarks of on-the-go computing, while performing comparably to a desktop
| gaming system.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/130446
Recent:
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
Microsoft's SEC:
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| A prominent example of open source software is the Linux operating system...
| To the extent open source software gains increasing market acceptance, sales
| of our products may decline, we may have to reduce the prices we charge for
| our products, and revenue and operating margins may consequently decline.
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http://www. microsoft.com/msft/SEC/default.mspx
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071023002351958
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