Hi, >Somehow I had a feeling I was going to write another > message in this subject
Strange, but me too!! >The laptop and the OS are bundled as a package deal, and you know it >when you buy the laptop. This is exactly the point: No always. As said here, why should a customer, who knows that he won't use windows on his laptop, pay for it? People answering this message gave examples of buying a "windows-free laptops without windows (let's consider "free dos" not as an OS). The average Linux user, who is interested in a ""windows-free laptop" may go to one, two, three, four or more stores and look for it. Suppose he will not find such a store in these five stores; then he might say to himself: this does not worth the time (he might say it also in the first store) and buy a laptop with windows. Or he can proceed with his efforts for finding a suitable , windows-free laptop. And this is the point: if linux people will advertise in this mailing list shops where they sell "windows-free laptops", then the average linux user will know where to find it. It would be great if there will be a link in linmagazine/whatsup for stores which sell "windows-free" laptops. This is what I meant by "the struggle is not finished yet"! >To summarize my view: If there will be a demand for Linux or non-OS >laptops, don't worry. Someone will supply it. True; but the community, in my view, should advertise these suppliers, thus encouraging them. We should seek to reach a situation where a vendor will be proud and wishing to add in his advertisement: "we sell "windows-free" PCs" in order to enlarge its sells and not loose potential Linux users. >It worked once, basically because Dell's main concern >was to >finish the story with as little noise as possible (that didn't >work...). Still, we must raise more noise, I believe, and cause Zvi Devir achievement, which can be regarded as a compromise from a legal point of view, to become a binding precedent. And I want to say regarding this: I was happy to hear today that there will be another lecture of him about his struggle in Tel Aviv University Linux group. The struggle **must** go on! Dans _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
