I call them today. <g><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Powell</b> <<a href="mailto:str8line@gmail.com">str8line@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The Direct 2 Dell site and the Imagine Sense site from Dell are what made all this happen in the US the way that it did. If I may make a suggestion....do as our American open source brothers and sisters did, tell Dell not each other.
<br><span class="sg"><br>Chris Powell</span><div><span class="e" id="q_1125c9b3861ea940_2"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">RIchard Seguin</b> <<a href="mailto:ubuntu@nb.sympatico.ca" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
ubuntu@nb.sympatico.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I don't imagine it will take long to follow. I am not sure why they<br>implemented that in the US first.<br>Dell could make a lot more money if they DIDN'T include the OS in there<br>packages.<br><br><br>Daniel Robitaille wrote:
<br>> On 5/2/07, cc <<a href="mailto:disgruntled.toaster@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">disgruntled.toaster@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>>> Just curious, I don't see anything about it at
<a href="http://www.dell.ca" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.dell.ca
</a><br>>><br>><br>> I haven't see anything either about us Canadians. The deal announced<br>> yesterday seems to only be for the US market:<br>><br>> "Update: These systems will be available in the coming weeks to
<br>> customers in the United States."<br>> <a href="http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/05/01/13147.aspx" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/05/01/13147.aspx
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