Hi, Some thoughts below:
--- On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:45 PM, swamynathan <[email protected]> wrote: | thats what im telling they stopped perhaps because of low market !! \-- >From what I have seen, most of the netbooks that came pre-loaded with GNU/Linux or with no OS didn't have the latest hardware configuration, or were not customizable. Please let me know if you find one. 1. You, I, and everyone knows that distributions with the Linux kernel will run on the latest hardware configuration. So, given a choice between a low-end, non-customizable hardware, and a proprietary system with high-end hardware, with lot of money being invested by the individual, people will prefer to buy the high-end hardware. 2. Even if the hardware OEMs really wanted to support the F/OSS folks, and decide to level the playing field, they could sell the highest hardware configuration, with A. proprietary OS, and B. without any OS or with some F/OSS distribution. Technically speaking, version (B) should be priced much lower because there is no OS, and you don't pay for other desktop software. People will definitely prefer to buy (B), and install whichever OS they want, especially in countries where software piracy is common. But, since this doesn't guarantee the proprietary OS vendor of his share of market, he will not allow (2) to happen. SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
