Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 15th Dec 2006 21:12 UTC
"The FSF today launched a campaign with a twofold mission of exposing the harms inflicted on computer users by the new Microsoft Windows Vista and promoting free software alternatives that respect users' security and privacy rights. "Vista is an upsell masquerading as an upgrade. It is an overall regression when you look at the most important aspect of owning and using a computer: your control over what it does. Obviously MS Windows is already proprietary and very restrictive, and well worth rejecting. But the new 'features' in Vista are a Trojan Horse to smuggle in even more restrictions. We'll be focusing attention on detailing how they work, how to resist them, and why people should care", said FSF program administrator John Sullivan."
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2006-06-01
Just as many people (if not more) use GNU/Linux as their desktop these days, as use Apple's OS X.
About 10% actually. Apple is between 3% and 4% and Linux is around .36%.
The facts of the matter are that Microsoft Windows is pretty much the only known 'computer software' to the average person, and that is due to an illegal monopoly with OEM manufacturers.
So why can I buy a D*** with Linux on it?
http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/precn_n?c=us&cs=...
Why does D*** sell so few of their computers with Linux on them? No demand.
When D*** signs an OEM agreement with Windows they:
1) Get it really cheap and basically sell it to the customer at cost in order to entice him/her to buy the PC.
2) They agree to do customer support.
D*** doesn't want to support the hundreds of available distros on hundreds of different combinations of computers. SO they offer Linux on a few they think they can sell and support.
They don't offer 25 distros as an option because it would cost them 10 times more to support and their margins are so small they would lose a fortune.
If D*** thought they could make money selling PC's with Linux on it, they would. And they do. But they obviously don't sell many.