__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Tuesday 27 February 2007 16:04 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, John Bailo
> <jabailo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:02:48 -0800
> <bsydneXrycUHSn7YnZ2dnUVZ_tvinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>
>>> You can taste the irony of Microsoft's patent positions on MP3 and Linux
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Just when fear enjoys a energetic caddy (Ballmer) on Microsoft's
>>> | repeated foray into Linux legal uncertainty, a real law suit with
>>> | real trial lawyers and a real jury ironically slaps down Microsoft
>>> | as a potential world-record intellectual property (IP) infringer.
>>> | Yup, Microsoft the purported victim of Linux, is in fact the major
>>> | MP3 format predator, or so says the assemblage of 12 informed peers.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2419
>>
>> If I were Yahoo or any big portal site, I'd be running like the wind to
>> make sure my domain was 100% Suse compatible come the time when Dell
>> starts shipping Linux notebooks.
>>
>
> Well, we're not quite there yet, but Dell does offer
> notebooks with a FreeDOS OS kit, ready to install.
>
> Select Notebooks, Small Business, then pull down
> Open-Source Notebooks.
>
> Not quite the same as the Dell Precision 690n workstation
> yet (which is offered with a preinstalled RH Enterprise
> Linux WS4), but baby steps, baby steps... :-)
The whole thing from Dell was a PR stunt.
http://boycottnovell.com/2007/02/27/dude-certification-isnt-preinstallation/
Nothing has changed.
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