another jerk in my mail box
Michael H. Warfield
mhw at WittsEnd.com
Fri Jun 16 17:07:56 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 16:22 +0100, Ian Malone wrote:
> On 6/16/06, Gerald Thompson <geraldlt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > We can preach all day about MS Windows though, and I am quite sure a
> > lot of you will, but most companies look at the bottom line and the
> > majority of people calling in to the sales office want MS Windows.
> > Should they give people the option of Linux, yes, and eventually they
> > will more and more often. We just have to keep applying pressure on
> > them. For now though I am not going to cry too much about it, I have
> > no problem taking my free MS Windows CD, tossing it on the shelf,
> > formatting the HD and throwing Fedora on, or better yet, just going to
> > a parts store and building my own system.
> >
> That CD isn't free. If it's true that you pay more for a workstation
> with RedHat installed then are MS getting the money anyway,
> or do you get the RH support?
You get the RedHat support, or Suse w/ Suse support. 1 or 3 year
subscriptions available.
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=sc430sapp&s=bsd
> --
> imalone
Mike
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