Acer has stated that it will be pushing Linux aggressively on its laptops and netbooks. The company is already heavily promoting Linux for its low cost ultra-portable netbook range out later this year, but senior staff have said that Acer will also push Linux on its laptops. Acer has already started selling Linux in its Media PC business but this should now spread, according to Gianpiero Morbello, vice president of marketing and brand at Acer. "We have shifted towards Linux because of Microsoft," he said. "Microsoft has a lot of power and it is going to be difficult, but we will be working hard to develop the Linux market."
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Member since:2005-07-06
You know I don't get how a coward who's always been afraid to post or use is name can really have an understanding of the complexity of reality.
I guess it's more fun to call me name and demonize me , then to know reality and pass judgment based on your lack of education and reality.
One question : How is someone who as never used BSD or proprietary software can really say that GNU/Linux and the GPL is the best when all they know is one option ?
They can't ...
Sure you pathetically labeled me as a close minded extremist , even go as far as calling me a murderer ( zealot ) who don't know what he is talking about and never tried anything else. That you insulted me in the past and opposed me and will do so in the future.
But that's not really the truth or reality ...
Just so you know at this moment I am using flock on windows XP on an Apple computer ... what does it say ?
That I know and use flock , that I paid , own ,know and use an XP OS , that I can make it run on Apple hardware that came with OS X witch I paid for and own too. It's only one of the many computer I personally own.
And yet I defend and support ( financially , code , translation , distribution , advocating , conferencing , etc ) GNU/Linux.
You can transpose it anyway you want , portray me as anything you want at the end of the day , I still use my real name , and I will still be doing what I want when I want.
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2005-07-13
Was simply pointing out that using a closed source proprietary browser might be construed as making you a "liar and a thief", given your constant defense of GNU and the GPL.
Or maybe I was pointing out the irony that for someone who so insists that OSS software has already made inroads against Windows, you yourself rely on proprietary software to get things done.
Me, I've got nothing wrong with that. I like my OSS with an appropriate mix of proprietary if it allows me to do my job and make a living. I'm big enough to admit that.
But you? I'm shattered. All these years of professing the superiority of GNU/GPL software, particularly when anyone dares mention BSD, and here you are a closet proprietary software user. What is the world coming to?