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6 Places to Buy Pre-installed Linux Computers
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| Gone are the days when the only source of linux distribution was the web.
| There were always very few small-scale distributors who would sell
| pre-installed linux desktop system, but the choices were few and the hardware
| options were very limited. Thanks to Dell, preinstalled desktop linux market
| is now mainstream. Today, we will look at some of the popular
| distributors/resellers, who are selling pre-installed linux systems for home
| users (not servers).
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http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2008/09/01/6-places-to-buy-pre-installed-linux-computers/
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?
|
| 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
Related:
Did Microsoft want to 'whack' Dell over its Linux dealings?
http://news.com.com/Did+Microsoft+want+to+whack+Dell+over+its+Linux+dealings/2100-1014_3-6153904.html
Dell's secret Linux fling
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/09/dell_linux_china/
Microsoft 'killed Dell Linux' - States
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/19/microsoft_killed_dell_linux_states/
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| From: Joachim Kempin
| Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 1996 9:43 AM
| To: Bill Gates; Pete Higgings (Xenix); Nathan Myhrvold; Brad Silberberg
| (Xenix); John Ludwig; Russel Siegeirman (Xenix); Steve Ballmer;
| paulma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Subject: RE: AOL
|
| are you suggesting we should put them in our box? May be all of them?
| Not a bad idea - but the OEMs might not be too hapy about it. They are
| loosing their $$?
| P they are not in compliance. Compaq
| truely pisses me off.
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http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_2455.pdf
Microsoft Shuts Down Linux 10 Years Ago Says Iowa Attorne
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| Going back now to as early as 1998, Microsoft starts to realize that
| Linux might pose a possible threat, and Vinod Valloppillil, who is
| a program manager at Microsoft, is asked by Mr. Allchin, Jim Allchin,
| to analyze potential strategies for combatting open-source software,
| and specifically Linux.
| His memos are leaked to the press in April -- I beg your pardon --
| in October of 1998 and become known as the Halloween documents.
| And the evidence will be that Microsoft uses its influence in the
| OEM channel, the computer manufacture channel, to make sure that
| end users have a difficult time buying PCs with Linux preinstalled.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/News/RoundUp/Microsoft_Shuts_Down_Linux_10_Years_Ago_Says_Iowa_Attorney
Microsoft's Dirty OEM-Secret
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| They are, in short the secret to Microsoft's success. And the word
| secret is to be taken quite literally: No OEM may talk about the
| contents of his contract, or he will lose his license, and (assumption)
| likely be sued for breach of contract as well.
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http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/10/23/13219/110
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