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Sridhar Dhanapalan
sridhar at dhanapalan.com
Fri Jun 16 08:31:41 BST 2006
On Friday 16 June 2006 15:31, "Paul Schulz" <pschulz01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/16/06, Andrew <andrew at swinndesign.com> wrote:
> > http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Projects/NotebooksWithoutWindows
>
> Rather than single out Microsoft, would it be more preferable to used
> 'Retails which do and don't supply laptops with an operating system.'
>
> We can then include 'Apple' as well :-)
What if the manufacturer/retailer sells the computer with FreeDOS (like Dell
does with some models in some countries) or GNU/Linux? Then the machine
*does* come with an OS, but not one which is 'bad'.
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Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/]
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"It is rather ironic that Microsoft and other closed model companies rather
resemble the Stalinist or Maoist model of a command economy with complete
centralised control." - Bill Thompson, BBC News, 2004-03-05
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