Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 8th Mar 2006 13:38 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Michael Dell, chairman of Dell Inc. believes in offering Linux on the desktop, server, and workstation. What he doesn't believe in, for now, is giving Linux full support on the desktop. In an exclusive interview, Dell explained his company's Linux desktop strategy to DesktopLinux.com's Steven J. Vaughan Nichols."
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2005-09-04
...for the hardware maker. USRobotics figured this out years ago and so they churn out dozens if not hundreds of varieties of their modems. Just try getting a driver for one of them. Nauseating.
So the last thing Dell will ever do is choose hardware that can be easily supported by others. And sure enough their trend today is in the opposite direction, to "higher end" systems -- e.g. cases with glitzy but non-standard, odd-sized form factors, custom component mounts, etc.
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