Linked by alcibiades on Tue 30th May 2006 20:40 UTC
Dell and its business model has been the focus of a lot of comment on Apple oriented forums in recent months. The Dell model is said to be unviable, and Dell's recent news is said to prove this. A limited endorsement of sorts for the so called "end to end model" in music has been published by Walt Mossberg in the WSJ. Recently a real sky-is-falling article with this theme has appeared here. This is a subject that matters. If the advocates of the so-called "end to end model" are right, it implies that the industry structure which allows us all to source hardware from wherever we want, and run a variety of OSs on it, is in danger.
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RE[3]: Seems to me that the savior is.....
by snozzberry on Tue 30th May 2006 23:45
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I've handed out tons of Knoppix disks, both CD and DVD. People look impressed when I show them off but never have the nerve to check them out on their own. Not one has asked me to repartition for a dual-boot. There's a line between impressed and willing to leave their comfort zone.
RE[4]: Seems to me that the savior is.....
by halfmanhalfamazing on Wed 31st May 2006 00:15
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You've apparently never handed out Knoppix disks.
More often than not, you raise eyebrows.
Most people have had some sort of expensive or even catastrophic(in their view) event surrounding their computer and/or OS and would be much more willing to give something else a try if they knew something else even existed. Remember, Linux doesn't have mindshare.
You say "linux" most will reply with "what's that?".