Dell to offer Ubuntu 7.04 on selected desk/laptops

[newburghmark at aol.com]

They would not have patents on 99% of it. I don't think that it was 
Bruce's intention to turn it into a profit making thing. I think that 
his issue was that the third world was being left on the wrong side of 
the digital divide.

  The initial contact between Dell and Ubuntu was made by Dell. It turns 
out that, although "Dell recommends Windows Vista," the founder of Dell 
runs Ubuntu on HIS PC!!

  I think that the whole project is going to get as far as costs. The 
hardware manufactures actually MAKE money on the contents of the hard 
drive, and they are selling the hardware itself below costs. Yes, 
Microsoft charges Dell maybe $100 to put vista on the hard drive, but 
then Dell turns around and sells putting things like teaser versions of 
Quicken and AOL 9.0 to those providers. On my new PC's the recovery 
CD's are set up in such a way as I can't restore Windows without 
restoring products like Symantec Anti Virus.

  If you put Ubuntu on a hard drive, that revenue is gone and you have 
to try and make money on the hardware. It's cheaper to buy a system 
with Windows than no operating system for this reason.

  I don't think that the numbers are there for this to be much more than 
an oddity. Even putting an Ubuntu CD loose in the box would imperil 
these marketing arrangements. You couldn't even put a flyer in the box 
that mentioned Linux without freaking out the makers of the game ware 
that give you an hour's free trial on something already on the hard 
drive.

  The last time that I reinstalled XP, I spent over an hour just 
uninstalling crap that got reinstalled with XP.

 Robert Mark Wallace
 Tita P Wallace
 Regina E P Wallace
 R M Ceferino P Wallace
 60 Delaware Road
 Newburgh, NY 12550-3802
 Telephone: (845) 566-0586

  Why run an old edition of Windows when you can run the latest edition 
of Linux for free? For a free download, go to WWW.Kubuntu.com

 -----Original Message-----
 From: shuston at ohiohills.com
 To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
 Sent: Tue, 8 May 2007 8:49 AM
 Subject: RE: Dell to offer Ubuntu 7.04 on selected desk/laptops

 I have a question with this. If dell is going to offer Kubuntu, etc on
  laptops, does this mean there is a possibility that Kubuntu could 
become
  commercialized and not a free distro? If it is successful, could this 
be a
 possibility?

 Huston


 -----Original Message-----
 From: kubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
  [mailto:kubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Derek 
Broughton
 Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 8:29 AM
 To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
 Subject: Re: Dell to offer Ubuntu 7.04 on selected desk/laptops

 Matthew Flaschen wrote:

 > Mark Wallace wrote:

 >> It would be impractical to surf the net without flashplayer because
 >> almost every page would have puzzle pieces on it.
 >
 > That's an exaggeration. The only flash content I /want/ to see is
 > videos (why would you use a complex, proprietary, interactive
  > environment just to show a video), and I can often find workarounds 
for
 > them.

 I agree. I never install flashplayer, and in the odd case that I really
 need it I go to the Windows desktop. It can't be important.
 --
 derek


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