On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 22:35, Richard Babcock wrote: > Greetings, > I was just surfing the Wal-Mart site and found them hawking an OS called > Lindows. Anyone know anything about this? It seems they are working hard to > convince neophytes that Windows is good but not that good. I just don't like > the approach and am disappointed in Wal-Mart for taking it. > R > ----- > Richard L. Babcock, Owner > Tower Training > At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! > www.towertraining.net
Yes, I've been aware of this for the past six months. They're selling very low end machines preloaded with "Lindows" - WalMart went to court with M$ over licensing - because M$ wanted to have every computer WalMart sold preloaded with Windows - WalMart didn't want to pay the licensing because they want max profits. WalMart wanted to offer computers WITHOUT an OS, but MS went so far as to push them into selling PC's with an OS - so they chose Lindows. This was a great slap in the face to M$ last year, and it was a win for the public. I have a mate in London, KY that does service for the Lindows PC's from WalMart. Guess how many service calls he gets? VERY FEW. Guess what the customers are saying about Lindows? NOT MUCH - because they're busy using their computers and not fixing them or fighting them. (And that's from the south-western section of Kentucky - go figure) -- Tue Dec 24 09:15:00 EST 2002 9:15am up 12:14, 5 users, load average: 0.07, 0.09, 0.13 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. -------------------------------- | __ __ | k�hn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen k�hn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | ;"""/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU -------------------------------- Coralament*Best Gr�tens*Liebe Gr��e*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn "I'd like to know if I could compare you to a summer's day. Because -- well, June 12th was quite nice, and..." (Wyrd Sisters)
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