Dell to offer Ubuntu 7.04 on selected desk/laptops

[manchicken]

On Tuesday 08 May 2007 15:31:10 newburghmark at aol.com wrote:
> 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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I don't think it's a good idea to speculate like this.  There's no way any of 
us could possibly have that information.  I would also like to know who Bruce 
is.  Please take speculation like this offline.

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