Fabian Rodriguez wrote: > alan c wrote: >> For some days now there has been an avalanche of requests for linux >> including Ubuntu, on Dell machines, [...] >> But why do I not see a Ubuntu comment in addition to Novell? >> And why is it only corporate products? >> > > Eric S Raymond provides some insight in his " World Domination 201" > paper. I posted about this in the past few days here: > http://www.salmar.com/pipermail/wftl-lug/2007-February/015369.html > http://www.salmar.com/pipermail/wftl-lug/2007-February/015384.html > > So really, we need to stop correlating the survey with their Novell > announcement and remember this is a limited, > corporate-market target, Novell-only-for-now deal. Good news, but > certainly not "Any Linux on all Dells for eveyone, because of this > single survey". Why ? Among other reasons, the seer size of Dell - but > also pressure from MS I guess. > > They actually clarified that later on: > http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=linux_and_unix&articleId=9011907&taxonomyId=122&intsrc=kc_top > > Fabian Rodriguez > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FabianRodriguez
yes thanks, the corporate question was perhaps a distraction. My main concern is that someone closely related to Ubuntu is into the situation to get a good and early outcome for Ubuntu. This does *not* mean preinstalled by Dell I think that is rather unlikely, but influencing the information about drivers. Dell are not going to do much for ubuntu just yet, but we can get a lot of leverage about drivers and maybe influence Dell choices behind the scenes. -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
