Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux
- From: Celejar <celejar@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:07:58 -0400
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:42:21 -0500
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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On 03/29/07 09:26, Celejar wrote:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:20:23 -0500
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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On 03/29/07 08:55, Paul Walsh wrote:
Passed to me by a colleague:There will be a limited number of models and they'll be more
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6506027.stm
*grin*
expensive (if for no other reason than companies like Symantec can't
sell ad space on a Linux desktop).
Thus, sales will be low and Dell will be justified in considering
the project a failure.
In /. terms, itsatrap.
That's what I never get about this whole business; I want them to do
linux to *lower* the cost by the cost of the windows license. I suppose
they're targeting people who want the convenience, not the cost saving.
I'd actually rather do the install myself, to customize it properly, so
I suppose what I really want is a no OS box, cheaper by the cost of a
Windows license from the equivalent Windows one.
But not subsidized by advertising space sold to other companies.
Yes. Another post in this thread made a good point, that a major
benefit of this could be the effort to promote hardware compatibility
and the development of (free) drivers.
Celejar
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