Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Waiting for Dell
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | The major desktop players keep flirting with the Linux community,
> | but then they never go all the way. Take, for instance, Lenovo.
All they need to do is arrange for a business server
to be raided by a 'hacker', or dump a PC into hands of
a 'hacker' to let loose in the wild all the available
emails and it will land micoshaft in the shitty sooner
than later.
> | Last summer, Lenovo agreed to preload Novell Inc.'s SLED 10 (SUSE
> | Linux Enterprise Desktop) on its ThinkPad T60p mobile workstation.
> |
> | Then, Lenovo started retreating, and hemming that they really didn't
> | mean that they would offer it pre-installed. No, no, it's just that
> | you could install SLED on the T60p if you really wanted to. Today,
> | if you look at the T60p listing, you'll find your only operating
> | system choices are Microsoft's Windows Vista Business and XP
> | Professional.
> `----
>
> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8312248169.html
>
> The mafia-like contracts and explicit threats must be playing a role.
>
>
> Related:
>
> FAA May Ditch Microsoft's Windows Vista And Office For Google And Linux
> Combo
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Bowen said he's in talks with the aviation safety agency's main
> | hardware supplier, Dell Computer, to determine if it could
> | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> | deliver Linux-based computers capable of accessing Google
> | Apps through a non-Microsoft browser once the FAA's XP-based
> | computers pass their shelf life.
> `----
>
> http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197800480
>
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | From: Joachim Kempin
> | Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 1996 9:43 AM
> | To: Bill Gates; Pete Higgings (Xenix); Nathan Myhrvold; Brad Silberberg
> | (Xenix); John Ludwig; Russel Siegeirman (Xenix); Steve Ballmer;
> | paulma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | Subject: RE: AOL
> |
> | are you suggesting we should put them in our box? May be all of them?
> | Not a bad idea - but the OEMs might not be too hapy about it. They are
> | loosing their $$?
> | P they are not in compliance. Compaq
> | truely pisses me off.
> `----
>
> http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_2455.pdf
>
>
> Microsoft Shuts Down Linux 10 Years Ago Says Iowa Attorne
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Going back now to as early as 1998, Microsoft starts to realize that
> | Linux might pose a possible threat, and Vinod Valloppillil, who is
> | a program manager at Microsoft, is asked by Mr. Allchin, Jim Allchin,
> | to analyze potential strategies for combatting open-source software,
> | and specifically Linux.
> | His memos are leaked to the press in April -- I beg your pardon --
> | in October of 1998 and become known as the Halloween documents.
> | And the evidence will be that Microsoft uses its influence in the
> | OEM channel, the computer manufacture channel, to make sure that
> | end users have a difficult time buying PCs with Linux preinstalled.
> `----
>
> http://www.linuxelectrons.com/News/RoundUp
Microsoft_Shuts_Down_Linux_10_Years_Ago_Says_Iowa_Attorney
>
>
> Microsoft's Dirty OEM-Secret
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | They are, in short the secret to Microsoft's success. And the word
> | secret is to be taken quite literally: No OEM may talk about the
> | contents of his contract, or he will lose his license, and (assumption)
> | likely be sued for breach of contract as well.
> `----
>
> http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/10/23/13219/110
>
>
> Jury Hears Microsoft Competition Suit
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | A judge on Friday told jurors they must accept as fact that a
> | federal court found in 1999 that Microsoft holds a monopoly over
> | computer operating systems and that it restricted computer
> | manufacturers' ability to use competing systems.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | She said she'll show that the company used its monopoly power
> | to exclude competition and control prices and that it conspired with
> | other companies to restrain trade, maintaining what she called a
> | chokehold on software competitors and computer manufacturers.
> `----
>
> http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/061201/microsoft_trial.html?.v=1
>
>
> Did Microsoft want to 'whack' Dell over its Linux dealings?
> http://news.com.com/Did+Microsoft+want+to+whack+Dell+over+its+Linu
+dealings/2100-1014_3-6153904.html
>
>
> Dell's secret Linux fling
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/09/dell_linux_china/
>
>
> Microsoft 'killed Dell Linux' - States
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/19
microsoft_killed_dell_linux_states/
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