__/ [ chrisv ] on Wednesday 06 June 2007 00:16 \__
> [H]omer wrote:
>
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>> __/ [ [H]omer ] on Tuesday 05 June 2007 20:53 \__
>>
>>>> Hopefully Mickey Dell will pass the good news on to his ignorant
>>>> Mouseketeers in the "Linux comes from all over the place and as such
>>>> cannot be supported" department.
>>>
>>> Try to find what /else/ they 'disabled' now. Could Microsoft's baseball
>>> bat bullies be behind it? ;-)
>>
>> It's painfully obvious that just campaigning to get Dell to sell
>> pre-installed Linux boxes is not enough, we'll also need to watch them
>> like hawks for subversive tactics designed to dissuade potential Linux
>> customers (at the behest of their Dark Overlord - Sweaty, naturally).
>>
>> Good grief, it's like the Cold War all over again, only less civilized.
>
> Well, if Khrushchev and Brezhnev were as good at dirty tricks as Billy G,
> they'd have been billionaire capitalists instead of communists.
Perhaps poor Dell is being "whacked". Again.
'A 2002 e-mail exchange filed with an Iowa court during one of the last state
antitrust suits seems to say so; Redmond defends the thread.
"We should whack them, we should make sure they understand our value," wrote
Paul Flessner, a senior vice president in Microsoft's server applications
unit.'
http://news.com.com/Did+Microsoft+want+to+whack+Dell+over+its+Linux+dealings/2100-1014_3-6153904.html
Microsoft 'killed Dell Linux' - States
,----[ Quote ]
| The States' remedy hearing opened in DC yesterday, and States attorney
| Steven Kuney produced a devastating memo from Kempin, then in charge of
| Microsoft's OEM business, written after Judge Jackson had ordered his
| break-up of the company. Kempin raises the possibility of threatening
| Dell and other PC builders which promote Linux.
|
| "I'm thinking of hitting the OEMs harder than in the past with anti-Linux.
| ... they should do a delicate dance," Kempin wrote to Ballmer, in what is
| sure to be a memorable addition to the phrases ("knife the baby", "cut off
| the air supply") with which Microsoft enriched the English language in the
| first trial. Unlike those two, this is not contested.
|
| [...]
|
| Earlier memos described that it was "untenable" that a key Microsoft
| partner was promoting Linux. Kuney revealed that Dell disbanded its Linux
| business unit in early 2001. Dell quietly pulled Linux from its desktop PCs
| in the summer of 2001, IDG's Ashlee Vance discovered subsequently, six
| months after we heard Michael Dell declare his love of Linux on the desktop
| the previous winter.
|
| Compaq was also mentioned in other memos, with Microsoft taking the line
| that OEMs should "meet demand but not help create demand" for Linux.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/19/microsoft_killed_dell_linux_states/
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