On Tuesday 10 June 2003 12:22, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 15:13, Curtis Rey wrote:
<snip of good thoughts>
Much of what Linux has gained in the OS is on the side of getting things
I think the big push on linux will arrive when hardware mgfs start realizing that they had better support Linux or lose a lot of business... and then they start writing drivers for their products. (and hopefully open source them so that they can be integrated into a distro... they almost have to to make it workable). And then software vendors start porting their products to Linux... some are already.
And then there won't be any stopping of Linux......
Hmmm.... To the best of my knowledge NO OEM PC maker has shipped a PC and NOT PAID M$ the 'per cpu' lic royalty to date. I know some believe that the USA DOJ settlement has voided the M$ requirement for a fee on EVERY cpu shipped, but in practice none of M$'s customers has 'tested' the concept. I believe that WALMART is the only firm shipping linux loaded PCs and NOT paying M$. But their supplier does no business selling PCs on their own. Remember you and I and "John Q Public" are not M$'s customers; the OEMs are, and what little M$ sells at retail is NIL to their bottom line. When ONE major OEM sells a signifigant number of PCs w/o M$ OS installed AND they do NOT send a Lic fee to Redmond we can truelly say Linux has a chance to get a tiny fraction of formerly M$ business. Never forget that those few OEMs that shipped a few PCs with Linux on them quietly paid M$ its Lic fee too. If anyone can show that a major OEM is NOT paying M$ a fee for every CPU shipped please tell us!! PeterB -- -- Proud to use SuSE Linux, since 5.2 Loving using SuSE Linux 8.2 May 2003, The City of Munich, Germany ordered 14,000 Workstation Lic for SuSE 8.2, despite M$ cutting their bid to $0.10 on the Dollar This will be remembered MyBlog http://vancampen.org/blog/ "Non Sanz Capsicum" "Not Without Cayenne" --