On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > hi, > > why do hardware vendors recommend customers to go for windows rather > than linux? Most common reason is that they know nothing about linux, > or are not confident of supporting linux. No one wants to admit lack > of knowledge - so they recommend against it. Not evil minds - just > ignorance. Check it out here: > > http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/full/56/NW/ > > > Talking about ignorance of hardware vendors, I have seen an office where a reputed pc brand has supplied a big lot of machines preloaded with Red Hat and was surprised to see all of them running desktops as root. The machines are more than a year old and the staff is clueless on how to use them.
-- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
