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[News] [Linux] Great News for Linux in Britain's OEM Channel

WEEE directive threatens Microsoft OEM sales 

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| There's a possibility Microsoft may well dump the OEM scheme and that 
| could prompt small firms that don't want to be WEEEing to install Linux 
| or even pirate OSes.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40305


Related:

Thad, in a post from yesterday...

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| Actually, this one is sort of true (or at least used to be).  A while 
| back, MS sent letters to various VARs and OEMs warning them that 
| computers purchased with Linux were being purchased just so pirated
| Windows could be installed on them.  They were urged to ship only
| Windows systems because of this.  Its difficult to find references
| for this nowdays, so I don't think they are beating that particular
| drum anymore (who would take it seriously anyway), but I remember
| reading a copy of the letter.
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Intensified Battle Lines

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| Some years back Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA) spokesperson
| Steven D'Aprano had posed a most intriguing question, "If Microsoft
| has a problem with piracy, it shouldn't be blamed on OEMs who sell
| PCs with Linux pre-installed or no operating system at all. Should
| we discourage supermarkets from selling plain bread, because
| shoppers might steal butter from elsewhere?" 
| 
| [...]
| 
| For long now a tag has been associated with Linux. Industry players
| and resellers say Linux has become a smart, official, cheap and
| convenient form of piracy. The charge, is however, outrightly
| rejected by the Linux vendors.
| 
| At their end, open source vendors will not miss an opportunity to
| assert that anyone who has benefited out of piracy is the
| proprietary vendors, like Microsoft. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| Partners are already moving close to Linux vendors for various
| reasons. The days to come will, therefore, offer interesting
| battle lines unfolding between MS and open source players.
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http://www.channeltimes.com/India/Columns/Intensified_Battle_Lines/551-80562-751.html
http://tinyurl.com/37n6do


Treachery In The Trenches

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| I believe that most people do not grasp the immense entity of Microsoft.
| This is an organization and a man who commands the attention and bidding
| of world leaders. On a recent trip to America, the President of China
| spent his first evening in the United States, not with our President,
| but Bill Gates. He was the guest of the Gates mansion that first
| evening and the guest of honor for a dinner attended by over one
| hundred people. Why? To ask him to crack down on Software piracy
| and to insure that his computer manufacturers put Microsoft Windows
| on thier newly made machines instead of shipping them with no OS. He
| didn't see the President of the United States for over 36 hours...he 
| spent that time with Bill Gates at his home and at the Redmond
| Campus.
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http://blog.lobby4linux.com/index.php?/archives/88-Treachery-In-The-Trenches.html

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