____/ Rick on Tuesday 25 September 2007 11:40 : \____
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:45:04 +0000, uae491@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/09/24/
> globalisation_institute_windows_bundling/
>>
>> The Globalisation Institute, a European think-tank run by free market
>> advocates, today went on the offensive against Microsoft, calling on the
>> EU to require all PCs to be sold without operating systems.
>>
>> It says this will not make consumers' lives more difficult, as they
>> would simply be asked to insert an OS DVD when they first power the
>> system.
>>
> ahaha HAha HAHA ahha HAHha HHAhaha haHA hahaha... yeah, the general
> public installing operating systems... AHa HAh HAhaha HHA haHA hah aH
>
> (snip)
You seem to be forgetting that installing a Linux distribution can nowadays be
as trivial as installing Acrobat Reader in Windows XP and then choosing login
username and password.
Mind you, Lenovo certifies some of its laptops for Fedora, Ubuntu, and SUSE
Linux (SLED 10). This means that they have tested to ensure that everything
will work out of the box given a CD-ROM of one of these ditributions (at the
very least). If you can point and click, you'll soon get your PC in a state
that is identical to that in which it arrives from OEM.
The OEMs do not configure your Web cam for you.
The OEMs do not set up your Internet connection.
....
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