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Re: [News ] A Call for Dell to Aggressively Market GNU/Linux

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____/ High Plains Thumper on Saturday 10 January 2009 09:55 : \____

> 
> 
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> You Don't Make Mistakes Like This.
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> Dell screwed up. No wait...they didn't screw anything up.
>>> They fully intended to do what they did. Now tell me they
>>> are not under the thumb of Microsoft. Why was this statement
>>> necessary? Let the customer decide. So tell me Dell is a
>>> friend of Linux or that they are not complete quislings for
>>> the Redmond Empire. Oh please...I do so want to hear you
>>> tell me this. It will be an Academy Award performance. It
>>> will have to be to explain away this.
>> `----
>> 
>> http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/10/you-dont-make-mistakes-like-this.html
> 
> Click on the Dell ad, up comes a readable jpeg image.  What I
> find ironic is the top portion mentions "Genuine Windows XP Home
> Edition", but the photo is that of the Ubuntu 8.04 "mini-OS".
> 
> (Most likely it is X-Windows XFCE, but that is another topic.)

Dell is being wrapped up by Microsoft. Watching the charts in antitrust memos
is like analysing a network of organised crime (white-collar crime).
 
> Windows 7 is Ubuntu?    :-)

Are you insulting Ubuntu now, just like the COLA trolls? ;-)

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