Re: Dell pushing linux

On Mar 31, 8:34 am, "J.O. Aho" <u...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Harold Stevens wrote:
In <575ue4F2bfq2...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> J.O. Aho:

[Snip...]

No option at all to select GNU/Linux

IMO, there never will be, because Unca Bill has Mikey Dell's family jewels
locked up in a Redmond vault somewhere.

Yes, microsoft has a vault with all the balls of "manufacturers" uses
OEM-microsoft on their computers, as the deal is quite simple, the more copies
of OEM-microsoft a "manufacturers" uses, the cheaper each copy will be, each
returned copy from a user will make the copies more expensive.
So a company who sells Linux-pre-installed boxes, will just make those
mocrosoft-pre-installed boxes more expensive (of course the Linux users will
be charged for making the microsoft-boxes more expensive).

Sadly the only manufacturers that does have pre-installed Linux on all their
boxes sells only for the Chinese market, we would need them to sell overseas too.

EU is all to slow on breaking microsofts monopoly on the pre-installed OS
(Apple is just a piss in the Mississippi), the day they fine the
"manufacturers" for not giving other options in ALL purchases, we will keep on
seeing those lame, "VISTA ready, and thanks for you paid 125 euro extra for
the computer, as we know you won't use a such buggy operating system".

And if pointyhair Novell dumbasses
think their recent deal with the devil is any different, they are in for a
very rude surprise.

Novell is just used to be f**k by microsoft, so they happily signs any kind of
agreement/contract with microsoft without even reading it.

--

//Aho

I've never seen you so passionate. It's nice to know that my feeling
are parallel to yours.

Dorothy

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