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Re: Summer's first Linux netbook

Verily I say unto thee, that Chris Ahlstrom spake thusly:

>    Why? Because Microsoft won't let vendors run XP Home, or Windows 7,
>    on netbooks with more than 1GB of RAM.

What was the /official/ reason for this bizarre decision?

I can understand them planning to enforce a "three app limit" on Vista
7, because that's probably all it can manage to cope with on a netbook,
but insisting on low /hardware/ specs just makes no sense at all.

My only conclusion is they're attempting to game the market into
rejecting netbooks in favour of more "Windows-capable" machines.

Fortunately their little dictum is irrelevant to ARM systems, as Windows
can't run on them anyway, as Fuddie likes to keep reminding us for some
odd reason.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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| the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf
| denounces him for the same act, as the destroyer of liberty.
| Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of
| the word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails today
| among human creatures." ~ Abraham Lincoln
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