-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Juan Alberto Cirez wrote: > Oh, the irony! > "...Take the Netbook Market for example: GNU/Linux�s market share on > these devices has dramatically declined. In 2008, about 24.5 percent of > netbooks shipped with an GNU/Linux operating system. This year, it�s > expected to plunge to 4.5 percent, and in 2010 only 3 percent of all > netbooks will run a GNU/Linux-based OS..." > This displays a pretty serious ignorance of how the industry actually works. The OS running on the netbooks is more closely related to the business deals that MS makes with the manufacturers. There is often a kickback for installing windows instead of alternative (of course this comes from the MS marketing department, making it barely legal).
Also, most manufacturers make money from the crapplets that are pre-installed on your PC. When Dell charged $50 more for Linux, it was because they were actually making less money with Linux than with Windows. The cost of the Windows licence was offset by the deals they made with other software vendors for loading up the PC with all that trial software. With Linux they are unable to install that software thereby losing out on that revenue. Please, for a guy that did not want to actually engage in a discussion, you seem pretty eager to blindly repeat the same flame bait from before. I would be happy to continue this discussion since you bailed on us earlier. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkpqEWUACgkQwRXgH3rKGfPwbQCgpVUmssNHqCBJ31VY6oc87Opc q5kAniJo/NY9q0puybrx33osA+5oL5+k =+Dxq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
