<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 27/09/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tony Arnold</b> <<a href="mailto:tony.arnold@manchester.ac.uk">tony.arnold@manchester.ac.uk</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;">
Kris,<br><br>On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 18:23 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote:<br>><br>> On 27/09/2007, Chris Jones <<a href="mailto:chris.jones@canonical.com">chris.jones@canonical.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi<br>
><br>> Kris Douglas wrote:<br>> > No windows in the European union?<br>><br>> No it's just a very misguided suggestion that no PC should<br>> ship with an<br>> OS pre-installed.
<br>> It just means more pain for users and no gain for anyone<br>> else.<br>><br>> Cheers,<br>> --<br>> Chris Jones<br>> <a href="mailto:cmsj@canonical.com">
cmsj@canonical.com</a><br>> <a href="http://www.canonical.com">www.canonical.com</a><br>><br>> --<br>> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>>
<a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a><br>> <a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a><br>>
<br>> Agreed, but if you were in a situation where you needed a system that<br>> could connect to a domain and run an application that was associated<br>> with keeping customers money safe, would you spend ages installing an
<br>> operating system, or would you go get a machine that had something<br>> installed and functioning correctly?<br><br>This argument works for any operating system! If I had a Linux<br>application doing a similar thing, I would want to buy client machines
<br>that had Linux pre-installed and just worked.<br><br>But this is a circular argument. One reason companies go for Microsoft<br>based applications is that they can buy pre-installed clients that just<br>work. It's much harder to do for Linux. Somehow, the circle needs to be
<br>broken!<br><br>Regards,<br>Tony.<br>--<br>Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester,<br>IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL.<br>T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039
<br>E: <a href="mailto:tony.arnold@manchester.ac.uk">tony.arnold@manchester.ac.uk</a>, H: <a href="http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold">http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold</a><br><br>--<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">
ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a><br><a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
</a><br></blockquote></div><br>Good point, if pcworld stocked Linux systems...<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Kris Douglas<br> Softdel Limited Hosting Services<br><br> Web: <a href="http://www.softdel.net">www.softdel.net
</a><br> Mail: <a href="mailto:kris@softdel.net">kris@softdel.net</a>