Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Cybersource wants Linux on white-boxes
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> | Open source evangelist Con Zymaris wants Australian PC assemblers to
> | consider selling dual-boot Windows and Linux systems with a new plan
> | that he claims would "double their profit margins."
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> http://www.crn.com.au/story.aspx?CIID=38608&src=site-marq
There are a number of anti-trust monopoly issues that attack this.
All the big vendors like Dell$, HP$, Lenov$
have been forced by micoshaft to sign illegal
non-competion agreements wherein they are contractually
forced to not ship any partitions or software installed with GNU/Linux
along side a windopes install. It is illegal market distortion
as there is a market for dual boot systems.
Secondly the windope installer is viral and deletes multi-boot
information in order to illegally retain market share - unlike SuSE
and Ubuntu and many other distros which do not delete multi-boot
information. This is illegal as Linux machines makes up more than 7% of
the world's PCs and deleting a Linux multi-boot boot record amounts
tampering with a PC like a virus, to bring harm to a user's PC
which then requires the PC to be processed in a similar
process as a virus infected PC
in order to recover that deleted information. EU regulators must rule
this practice as illegal and allow its victims to sue micoshaft
for vending of viral software and police should raid micoshaft offices
and arrest all staff involved in writing, manufacturing, warehousing
and distributing viral software as they do with existing virus writers.
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