Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux

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On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:31:07PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
Kevin Mark writes:
the cost of dell (or other products) includes window support and payments
from Microsoft and other software makers. This is almost the 'profit' to
dell. With an o/s less computer, they would not get this 'profit'...

You are not making sense. Rest assured that there is a _large_ flow of
money from Dell to Microsoft.
What comprises this money?

Unless they said that you would not get any support and you'd have to pay
for it from a 3rd party.

The sensible way to handle hardware support independent of any installed
software would be to ship each pc with a bootable CD with custom Dell test
software. Linux would make a convenient base for such a CD.
This is something I have mentioned in other places: bios updates,
hardware testing and other issues. You need a linux-based or similar
test cd so that if have a hardware issue or need a bios update that the
tech support folks stop saying 'but you need to use windows for us to
diagnose the problem before we can authorizes this' or similar.
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