After takin' a swig o' grog, JEDIDIAH belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> On 2009-05-20, Hadron <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
>>> this bit o' wisdom:
>>>
>>>> One Third of Dell Inspiron Mini 9s Sold Run Linux
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| Dell attributes part of the Linux growth to competitive pricing on the Ubuntu
>>>>| SKUs. ?When you look at the sweet spot for this category it is price
>>>>| sensitivity, and Linux enabled us to offer a lower price entry point,? added
>>>>| Dell senior product manager John New.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://blog.laptopmag.com/one-third-of-dell-inspiron-mini-9s-sold-run-linux
>>>
>>> Liars! Microsoft has 96% of the market!
>>
>> I'm beginning to wonder if you are trolling or a reverse troll. Surely
>> you can not be such a demented suck up that you purposely read
>> impossible statistics into things in order to get flipped another doggy
>> drop?
Hadron's the one who crowed those "impossible statistics" of 96%!
>> you can not be such a demented suck up that you purposely read
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What's up with that?
>> One third of Dell Inspiron Minis having Linuxx means 66% of THEM are
>> Windows. Other netbook manufacturers have even STOPPED selling Linux on
>> them.
>
> So? Dell is one of the top 3 desktop vendors with Apple being one
> of the other 3. Dell by itself accounts for selling more netbooks than
> can be accounted for by the bogus Lemming marketshare numbers.
Note how Hadron emphasizes Microsoft dominance, rather than the fact that a
Microsoft-corralled vendor is selling significant quantities of a
non-Microsoft product.
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It was all so different before everything changed.
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