Woe to you if you distribute anything other than a Microsoft operating system

[Michael Haney]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> On Thursday, October 28, 2010 08:12 PM, John Pinner wrote:
>> Christopher Chan wrote:
>>> http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20101025PD218.html
>>>
>>> Is Dell still selling Ubuntu boxes or maybe they are already paying tax...
>>>
>>>
>> In the UK, Dell do not sell Linux boxes, and say that, if you install
>> Linux on one of their laptops, the warranty is invalidated. That was the
>> last I knew, anyway (a year ago). They will install Ubuntu for you, and
>> warranty the laptop, but they charge several hundred pounds for the
>> privilege. So a £300 laptop may cost you say £700.
>>
>
> Dell really has to get that program way beyond just the borders of the USA.
>
> Ah well, Microsoft appears to have such a stronghold in Hong Kong, I
> will probably never see Dell sell stuff with Ubuntu preloaded here.
>

There's always Commodore.  They make a pretty damn decent keyboard PC
that runs Ubuntu, even come pre-installed with Ubuntu on it.  Its
called the Commodore Phoenix.

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