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DATE | 2007-02-28 |
FROM | Ron Guerin
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SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] BusinessWeek.com: Customers to Dell: Give Us
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From owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Wed Feb 28 13:46:36 2007 Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l1SIkY44026963 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:46:36 -0500 Received: (from majordomo-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id l1SIkYqM026962 for hangout-outgoings; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:46:34 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: www2.mrbrklyn.com: majordomo set sender to owner-hangout-at-nylxs.com using -f Received: from broadway.vnetworx.net (broadway.vnetworx.net [69.31.43.18]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l1SIkVVd026956 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:46:33 -0500 Received: (qmail 12481 invoked by uid 89); 28 Feb 2007 18:47:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.42?) (72.229.139.219) by broadway.vnetworx.net with SMTP for ; 28 Feb 2007 18:47:01 -0000 Message-ID: <45E5CE27.4090000-at-vnetworx.net> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:47:03 -0500 From: Ron Guerin User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Subject: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] BusinessWeek.com: Customers to Dell: Give Us Linux! References: <8753839c0702281011n517a97fdr2c30ce57eefb2582-at-mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8753839c0702281011n517a97fdr2c30ce57eefb2582-at-mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 31646 Status: RO Content-Length: 1235 Lines: 25
einker wrote: > http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2007/tc20070226_415604.htm?campaign_id=techn_Feb26&link_position=link27 > > > News Analysis February 26, 2007, 12:01AM EST > > > Customers to Dell: Give Us Linux!
Well, Dell has already indicated (today's news somewhere) that they're not likely to take much action on this any time soon. Michael Dell runs the company again, and that means his anti-Linux, anti-AMD bias is firmly at the helm. Dell is a lost cause for Free Software users, and I really think a lot of time is wasted thinking about them that would be better applied elsewhere. Rather than continually trying to twist Dell's arm into doing itself a favor, we should let Dell continue to rot and reap what they've sowed.
I was at the One Laptop Per Child presentation last night, and after hearing how its come into being, it's obvious to me that the correct approach is to let Dell continue sucking up to monopolists (it's what they aspire to be themselves), and find some hardware maker to be friends with that's really interested and not just jerking us around.
- Ron
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