I, for one, am not the least bit dismayed. It makes sense. In fact,
Dell is truly one of the last major vendors to drop Linux on the
desktop. AFAIK, IBM is the only one remaining.
--- Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I see some dismay expressed about Dell dropping linux desktop
> computers.
> Let's take a poll:
> How many people on this list have bought a Dell computer with linux
> for the
> desktop in the last twelve months?
> I doubt any.
> Some years ago, outside of Boston, the train company wanted to end a
> particular passenger train service during the later evening hours, say
> between 7 and 10:00pm. So, as required, they had a public meeting over
> it.
> Many people came to express their opposition to killing this service.
> Then,
> the company reps asked how many people had taken the train to the
> meeting.
> Answer: None.
> The company pointed out that the meeting was held at a point very
> convenient to the train line and that the meeting time had been set to
> allow
> people to use the train to attend the meeting.
> Result: The train service was killed.
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