On Thursday 14 September 2006 12:43, Marc Collin wrote:
why company like novell, red hat, mandriva, lindows don't make pressure on their company to sale computer with linux? The simple answer....
The M word.... take your pick... Micro$oft (or) Monopoly The reason is that Micro$oft's evil monopoly over the entire hardware and software industry has choked free enterprise and stifled innovation. PERIOD. What it is going to take is pressure from consumers. This will happen over time, but it will happen. I purchased an HP S7400n Slimline system for my daughter (deliberately) for the benefit of introducing them Linux in an inexpensive way (system was $399 preloaded with an XtraPricy OS from M$). I shrank the M$ partition and installed Suse 10... worked beautifully out of the box with the exception of audio... and that was quickly resolved with an Alsa driver from Realtek. Anyway... My daughters (you might call them computer challenged) have XP and Suse side-by-side so to speak (dula boot)... they are free to boot into either one as they like without my prodding them... we're several hundred miles apart--- and guess what... they like Suse. Their Windows side is installed with a licensed edition of Office 2003 (student/teacher) and their Suse side is preloaded with OpenOffice... of course. Guess what... they *prefer* OpenOffice... free pdf export, and all the cool features of Office with the exception of markup... which they don't use anyway. What's the point... its gonna take time for folks to discover the trend away from proprietary... and it is gonna take time for the daughters and mom and pops of the world to realize there is a better choice... My second daughter didn't want anything to do with linux until the first daughter kept talking it up... then.... whalla now both of them love it. Of course my youngest kids (still at home) don't have a choice... all they are learning is Linux cause I don't let 'em use anything else. :-O I really like the Suse motto--- Have lots of fun! .... because linux has definitely put the fun back into computing.... the kitchen table programmer is back... hackers have a new spring in their step.... and innovation has begun to soar again... its really exciting to say the least. With every passing day more folks will be trying linux. Sooner or later folks will be demanding preloaded linux machines. Its time. So... call your favorite hardware vendor and demand it... "I'm not buying one more silly system loaded with anything from Redmond...." -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< harrismh777@earthlink.net