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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Wednesday 14 Oct 2009 14:24 : \____
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>>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
>>> this bit o' wisdom:
>>>
>>>> ____/ Terry Porter on Tuesday 13 Oct 2009 23:05 : \____
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>>>>> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:49:46 +0000, 7 wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.liliputing.com/2009/10/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-linux-source-
> code-
>>>>>> now-available.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Google had best proactively sue in advance micoshaft corporation for
>>>>>> threatening Asus and retailers with back handers to stop stocking
>>>>>> Google Android and sell micoshaft crap.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Its going to happen any way as with Asus and their Linux PCs in the
>>>>>> past, so Google may as well hire private dicks now and pay Asus
>>>>>> management and retailers for any information that may lead to a
>>>>>> prosecution and damage money.
>>>>>
>>>>> Good point, and won't that be a fun to watch :)
>>>>
>>>> ASUS seems to be getting back to some more Linux.
>>>
>>> I've noticed that, at $300 and up at Target, the Windows XP netbooks
>>> are languishing.
>>
>> Microsoft has already lost around a $billion on those (cannibalising).
>>
>> - --
>> ~~ Best of wishes
>>
>>
>> Microsoft Shoe: Where do you want to limp today? -- Ernst Jan Plugge
>
>
> Limited micoshaft netbooks are the worst things that slow down
> netbook hardware sales for manufacturers.
>
> What are the manufacturers and retailers going to do this Christmas?
> Offer windump and loose a lot of money or offer Linux netbooks at
> their true price with 3D compiz to forcefully canibalise windump sales and
> boost their own hardware sales that matter to the investors and their bottom
> line.
Their issue is that Vista 7 is not suitable for these devices.
"Acer and Intel, for example, are already complaining that Windows
7 Starter Edition simply won't sell."
http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2009/05/is_microsoft_he.html
Acer is embracing More Linux on these devices and Intel has Moblin.
- --
~~ Best of wishes
Unix *is* user-friendly. It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly.
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