OT: Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 16:28, Birt, Jeffrey wrote:
> Dell, Gateway, et al preinstall
> what the vast majority of their consumers want;

Ummm, did you read any of the manufacturer's testimony from
the antitrust trial?  That made it pretty clear that it
wasn't a choice the customers could make - and not much
has changed since that I can see.

> nobody (relatively
> speaking) wants Linux preinstalled so it is not worth their effort to do
> so (can you imagine all the whining from Linux folks if their favorite
> flavor of Linux was not offered but others ere). IF you are buying lots
> of boxes from then they WILL install the OS of your choice (Dell does so
> for our university).

Do they knock off the price of the MS license when they install
something else?

> They simply try
> to supply what they think their consumers will most likely buy, after
> all not many folks would be in the market for a new Mustang sans
> tires!!!!!

You might still find the vendor comments from the trial around
if you think that's why everything ships with windows.

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  Les Mikesell
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