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So, How Does It Feel To Have Been "Had"
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| In a nutshell, Mike Dell fires his CEO, takes control of Dell again
| and starts "A New Era of Innovation." He has his people put up a
| website asking US what we want in a Dell Computer. In no particular
| order, the tens of thousands of responses were:
|
| Linux on the Desktop
| Dual Boot capabilities with Linux as an option
| FOSS offered instead of proprietary garbage (read OpenOffice in place
| of MS Office)
| Computers with No OS installed
| Less or even no AOL/Earthlink/Name-Your-most-hated-spyware-here.
|
| The community, upon digesting the information from the site and
| the dozens of articles resulting from said information, went Bat-Crap.
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http://blog.lobby4linux.com/archives/104-So,-How-Does-It-Feel-To-Have...
So when are you Linux crybabies going to put up a www.boycottdell site
like you
have already done with Novell?
You morons just don't get it do you?
Linux doesn't sell.
Companies need to make money to survive,
If Dell thought it could make big money with Linux it would, but there
is no doubt it has studied this
inside and out and has reached the conclusion that supporting Linux
via their helpdesk is going to
cost far more than the piddling number of machines they might sell
loaded with Linux.
Walmart discovered the same thing.
A year ago they offered close to 10 different Linux loaded PC's on
their website.
Now they have one aging model left to choose and I'll bet that one is
gone shortly.
Lenovo is learning the same thing.
Sure they talk about loading Linux.
Now try and find information about Linux on their websites.
It's buried 10 frames down.
Why?
Because the valuable advertising space is taken up by Windows
machines, which sell and
pay the companies bills.
For a group of people that claim Linux and Open Source brings freedom
you sure have a nasty side to you.
I guess the freedom only comes if one follows the Open Source / Linux
bouncing ball and does everything the way
the Linux community wants it to be done.
And when one doesn't follow the Linux rules of engagement totally,
then the Linux community turns
on that person or company like some kind of a rabid rat that has been
cornered.
The problem isn't really Linux so much, the problem is the Linux
community at large which seems to
be composed of a bunch of unstable, back stabbing people.
So when do you jerks start your boycott of Dell because their Linux
support is lukewarm?
I suppose it's evil for a company to make money these days huh?
I wonder how many of you Linux zealots make your living with Windows
by day and spew your religious Linux crap by night.
You have at least one idiot in comp.os.linux.advocacy that is
literally sitting at the computer posting 24 hours a day and 7 days a
week.
And you don't think someon is paying him?
You're fools if you don't.
So when does the boycott Dell campaign begin?