Posted on 03/13/2007 6:54:28 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Dell Inc. began polling customers about their software preferences on Tuesday as part of an effort by the struggling PC vendor to meet a popular request for desktops and notebooks that run on Linux instead of Windows.
Dell posted the survey on a company blog, asking PC users to choose between Linux flavors such as Fedora and Ubuntu, and to pick more general choices such as notebooks versus desktops, high-end models versus value models and telephone-based support versus community-based support.
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Dell has fallen upon hard times so has diversified to AMD processors and now to Linux. I'm glad to see this. I have worked on Dells. My favorites are the small from factor Optiplex desktops. Very good airflow and ventilation. Others copy Dell now. It's not hard to reverse engineer ventilation. But Dell was first in mass production of quiet, well ventilated computers
Richard Stallman is a godless atheist same as the Microsoft big shots such as Nathan Myhrvold. They funded Richard Dawkins when he was less well known. Brought him to Seattle for celebrity lectures
When are you going to realize the difference between standing up for someone and correcting a blatant lie about someone? Yes, software patents are related to business method patents, both came out of the same activist court decisions, as the software itself becomes the method.
Can you be any more deceitful. The quote from you on that post is "As for Stallman, of course he opposes patents." The reference to software patents is a quote from Stallman, not you. Then, in aggravation, I wrote:
"No, he opposes
Later, you even wrote I already gave you a link where he said all patents were all harmful. (my emphasis)
Yes, you lied, or you have comprehension skills below that of my first grader. You do state that he opposes all patents, and you called me deceitful for correcting you. You never apologized then or retracted your lies, and I don't expect you to do it now.
coincidence? nope...
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