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Re: Xandros Gets a Deal With Office Depot, Puts Linux in the Stores

  • Subject: Re: Xandros Gets a Deal With Office Depot, Puts Linux in the Stores
  • From: Aunty Diluvian <AuntyDiluvian@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:44:18 -0400
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: UseNetServer.com
  • References: <13377221.XaviX8ova3@schestowitz.com> <pan.2007.04.18.00.14.53.578373@ncoldns.com> <1176917864.061679.169730@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>
  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:515875
On 18 Apr 2007 10:37:44 -0700, Darth Chaos
<DarthChaosofRSPW@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Apr 17, 8:14 pm, Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarna...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> [snips]
>>
>> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:45:27 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> > Office Depot to SellXandrosSoftware
>>
>> > ,----[ Quote ]
>> > | ...Office Depot, a leading global provider of office products and
>> > | services, will deliverXandros' line of business and consumer Linux
>> > | desktop operating systems to the market.
>>
>> Give it a week.  Even if it sells a million copies, we'll have DFS or some
>> other twit harping on about the microscopic market share of Linux,
>> completely oblivious to the existence of other distros, free downloads,
>> allowed copying and the like.
>
>
>Plus, there's some idiot neocon on FreeRepublic named "Golden Eagle"
>who says that Linux is a "communist ploy to defeat capitalism".

If this were the McCarthy era, Linus Torvaldes would be branded a
Communist. He would be blacklisted and his future ruined.

Where are the "finger pointers" when we need them.


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