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Re: Lenovo preloading SUSE

____/ Jeanette on Wednesday 08 August 2007 06:35 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 07 August 2007 19:36 : \____
>> 
>>> waterskidoo <water.skidoo@xxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> On 2007-08-07, John Bailo, Texeme.Construct <jabailo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=013001BYESWN
>>>>>
>>>>> "Lenovo will be preloading some of its ThinkPad notebook PCs with
>>>>> Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10"
> 
>> 
> Jeanette wrote:
> 
> This is deja vu all over again, Didn't Lenovo say this a year ago with
> SLED 10 and then retract it and say you would have to do the install?

Yes, I kept saying this in Digg as well. A couple of days later Lenovo quietly
retracted saying it was only certified to run SUSE. The suspicion we had at
the time was that, just as Ron Hovpesian said in an interview  (before
becoming CEO), Microsoft uses scare tactics.

Also remember:

“I’m thinking of hitting the OEMs harder than in the past with anti-Linux. …
they should do a delicate dance”

             –Joachim Kempin, Microsoft OEM Chief

“We should whack them [Dell over Linux dealings], we should make sure they
understand our value.”

             –Paul Flessner, Senior Vice President, Server Applications Unit



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