> It seems like Dell had a Linux Preload offer for a few months. I took it > that Microsoft had a talk with them and the Linux preloads were taken off > the market. It seems to me that was 2 years ago. > I wonder what changed to allow Lenovo to consider doing this?
Unsubstantiated guess: their Microsoft licensing contract expired and they negotiated a better set of terms with MS that removed any "exclusive" language by threatening MS with reawakening the "you're a monopoly" anti-trust suit. Of course, they'd have to try it in the EU, given the US DOJ dysfunction at the moment, but that's probably still enough clout to get MS to back down. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
