On 28 Feb 2007 08:59:40 -0800, jjwassermann@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>On Feb 28, 5:36 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>> So, How Does It Feel To Have Been "Had"
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | In a nutshell, Mike Dell fires his CEO, takes control of Dell again
>> | and starts "A New Era of Innovation." He has his people put up a
>> | website asking US what we want in a Dell Computer. In no particular
>> | order, the tens of thousands of responses were:
>> |
>> | Linux on the Desktop
>> | Dual Boot capabilities with Linux as an option
>> | FOSS offered instead of proprietary garbage (read OpenOffice in place
>> | of MS Office)
>> | Computers with No OS installed
>> | Less or even no AOL/Earthlink/Name-Your-most-hated-spyware-here.
>> |
>> | The community, upon digesting the information from the site and
>> | the dozens of articles resulting from said information, went Bat-Crap.
>> `----
>>
>> http://blog.lobby4linux.com/archives/104-So,-How-Does-It-Feel-To-Have...
>
>So when are you Linux crybabies going to put up a www.boycottdell site
>like you
>have already done with Novell?
>
>You morons just don't get it do you?
>
>Linux doesn't sell.
>Companies need to make money to survive,
>If Dell thought it could make big money with Linux it would, but there
>is no doubt it has studied this
>inside and out and has reached the conclusion that supporting Linux
>via their helpdesk is going to
>cost far more than the piddling number of machines they might sell
>loaded with Linux.
>
>Walmart discovered the same thing.
>A year ago they offered close to 10 different Linux loaded PC's on
>their website.
>Now they have one aging model left to choose and I'll bet that one is
>gone shortly.
>
>Lenovo is learning the same thing.
>Sure they talk about loading Linux.
>Now try and find information about Linux on their websites.
>It's buried 10 frames down.
>Why?
>Because the valuable advertising space is taken up by Windows
>machines, which sell and
>pay the companies bills.
>
>
>For a group of people that claim Linux and Open Source brings freedom
>you sure have a nasty side to you.
>
>I guess the freedom only comes if one follows the Open Source / Linux
>bouncing ball and does everything the way
>the Linux community wants it to be done.
>
>And when one doesn't follow the Linux rules of engagement totally,
>then the Linux community turns
>on that person or company like some kind of a rabid rat that has been
>cornered.
>
>The problem isn't really Linux so much, the problem is the Linux
>community at large which seems to
>be composed of a bunch of unstable, back stabbing people.
>
>So when do you jerks start your boycott of Dell because their Linux
>support is lukewarm?
>
>I suppose it's evil for a company to make money these days huh?
>
>I wonder how many of you Linux zealots make your living with Windows
>by day and spew your religious Linux crap by night.
>
>You have at least one idiot in comp.os.linux.advocacy that is
>literally sitting at the computer posting 24 hours a day and 7 days a
>week.
>And you don't think someon is paying him?
>You're fools if you don't.
>
>So when does the boycott Dell campaign begin?
>
Who cares but to answer your question,
As soon as you go into your after life and give us peace !!
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