On Wednesday May 10 2006 01:21 pm, Nick Wiltshire wrote: > On Wednesday 10 May 2006 1:01 pm, Mitchell Brown wrote: > > I have to agree - this might happen some day. When Hell freezes over!! > > Seriously, Microsoft has no reason to it. The Microsoft fanboys will > > still purchase Windows no matter how insecure or unstable it is. > > Because, to alot of them, Linux just screams "HARDDD!!!" and they > > don't want to take the time to learn it. Does this guy honestly think > > Bill Gates is just gonna open source it? Man... > > I agree. Except it's not the fanboys, it's people who buy a magic box with > a pre-loaded OS. They are the reason for MS's huge cash flow. If Dell was > to start shipping -and advertising- boxes pre-loaded with Linux, it would > be interesting, but I'll withhold prediction. Lets say it would help. >
Funny you should say that....... According Linux Format. May 2006, page 8 article: "Dell Does Linux" Dell is going to start shipping several machines with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation pre-installed (models 670n, 470n and 380n). How much advertising they're going to do remains to be seen. Alastair _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
