After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> Did Microsoft force Asus to ditch Linux?
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>| The problem was that Asus had not only adopted Windows and jettisoned Linux
>| (which I knew), but the computer didn???t even come with the free services that
>| came with the US$199 model. I know there are millions who love Windows. That
>| is their human right. But it fails completely ??? for me ??? on usability.
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> http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2009/07/15/2003448667
I am told there is an impressive Web book running the Linux-based Ubuntu
in the pipeline. Microsoft has already disproved the axiom of the great
management guru Peter Drucker, who claimed that no non-governmental
monopoly had ever lasted more than 15 years. The prospect of serious
competition in operating systems can only be good not just for consumers
all over the world but for Microsoft as well. But whether it can be
dislodged from its entrenched position remains an open question.
Sick.
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I reverently believe that the maker who made us all makes everything in New
England, but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be
raw apprentices in the weather-clerks factory who experiment and learn how, in
New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for
countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere
if they don't get it.
-- Mark Twain
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