[Am-info] Dell Outsmarts Microsoft!

[Geoffrey]

Paul Rickard wrote:
> ========== 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.

I wouldn't quite publish just yet, check out:

http://www.dell.com/us/en/biz/topics/linux_linuxhome.htm
http://www.dell.com/us/en/biz/topics/linux_000_products.htm

and

http://www.dell.com/us/en/biz/services/service_cfiClientSoftwareIntegration.htm

Which has the following:


Software Integration Graphic

Client Software Integration

Client Software Integration provides custom configuration and 
installation of software, (standard, custom, or proprietary), in our 
factory environment. Client Software Integration services include:

     * Client Software Services
       (OptiPlex, Latitude, Precision)
           o Software Image Loads of all your major operating systems
                 + Windows 98
                 + Windows 2000
                 + Linux 6.2 and 7.0
           + NetWare 5.x
           o Proprietary and Third Party Application Loads
           o Hard Drive Partioning
o Image Management Services
> 
> 
> 
> ======== Paul Rickard, Editor of The Microsoft Boycott Campaign =======
> --------------------------------[ Http://www.msboycott.com ]-----------
> 
>   "But for Microsoft's interference, the market would be much more
>    dynamic as new technologies and fresh innovations challenged the 
>    company's present dominance."
>        -Judge Robert Bork, former US Supreme Court nominee
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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric@3times25.net

I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?