On 05/16/2012 10:10 AM, Tracy Reed wrote:
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 09:56:50AM -0700, Harvey Rothenberg spake thusly:
A six month experiment Dell is undertaking to design a notebook running open
source software aimed at developers (as reported on the net as of May 11,
2012).
Why should we have any expectation that Microsoft isn't calling up Dell right
now upon hearing about this project and threatening to end Dell's ability to
competitively sell computers with Windows installed by jacking up the price?
Overall this is great news. But we've been down this hopeful road with Dell at
least a couple of times before.
It happens quite regularly with Dell. Same as for many years we saw
that almost every 9 months they'd start talking about doing servers with
AMD chips in, which then mysteriously never materialised but was usually
followed with some kind of announcement about a renewed partnership
arrangement between them and Intel.
Paul
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