[Am-info] Microsoft forces Linux off laptops

[Hans Reiser]

  Joe Barr wrote:

>http://www.msnbc.com/news/725725.asp
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>As evidence that Microsoft is continuing to strong-arm the computer
>market, Steven Kuney, another lawyer for the states, entered into
>evidence an internal Microsoft e-mail from CEO Steve Ballmer, Chairman
>Bill Gates and other top executives that outlined a campaign in mid-2000
>to drive Dell Computing away from offering Linux on its laptop
>computers.
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> In preparation for Ballmer meeting with a Dell executive to talk about
>the computer maker?s support of Linux, a confidential Microsoft briefing
>e-mail notes as a talking point that ?it?s untenable for a ?premier
>partner? of Windows 2000 to be doing aggressive marketing development
>for another operating system.?
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This effort was successful in the case of Dell.  I advise buying IBM not 
Dell laptops if you want to use Linux (I have a Dell).
(I just discovered this email in my unsent basket, sorry for being delayed.)

Hans