OT: Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Jeff Vian wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 05:56 -0600, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> > On 2/12/06, taharka <res00vl8 at alltel.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Interesting take/points on the article for sure ;-) If you
> > > haven't already, you may want to email the author your views. I
> > > believe her email addy is at the very top of the article.
> >
> > Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to be an apologist for
> > Microsoft, and I do believe their "Get the Facts" campaign is a
> > drive to "obscure the facts" about Free software.  I just don't
> > feel the issues encountered by the folks in the article are part
> > of that effort. ;-)
> >
> So you really don't believe control of hardware manufacturers is
> part of their plan?  Please get your head out of the sand and look
> at the real world.  There is tons of evidence to show what is going
> on.

i believe the little "designed for windows xp" stickers on most retail
PCs kind of backs up that point.

rday