[Am-info] Dell Outsmarts Microsoft!

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.08.14 02:21 PM, Geoffrey typed: ============

>>    So Dell may expect some of its customers to load prepurchased 
>> corporate Windows licenses instead of Linux... I see.
>
>Yeah, that's what they want Microsoft to think...

    OK, I'm still going to put it like this: "Due to some earlier 
arrangement with Microsoft, the nation's top PC seller is apparently 
prevented from offering Linux to any customers who buy fewer than 100 
systems." Which is more or less true - the arrangement may be a verbal 
agreement instead of a legal contract, but it's significant enough that 
Dell doesn't dare cross it.

    With that cleared up, I'll be sending a Bulletin shortly.



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