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Ford To Move To Linux

Posted by simoniker on from the welcome-to-model-free dept.

KingDaveRa writes "The Register is reporting that motor giant Ford is switching to Linux for its sales systems, human resources, customer relations and infrastructure, referencing a report in yesterday's Scotland on Sunday. According to The Register, the biggest battle was over which Linux vendor to use - RedHat or SuSE." Update: 09/16 01:51 GMT by T : An anonymous reader points to this NewsForge report, according to which Ford is not moving to Linux.

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  1. Good thing it isn't MS deciding to build cars by Anonymous+Crowhead · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Because if the did...

    1. A particular model year of car wouldn't be available until after that year, instead of before.

    2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car.

    3. Occasionally your car would just die for no reason,and you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you would just accept this.

    4. You could only have one person at a time in your car, unless you bought a car '95 or a car NT, but then you'd have to buy more seats.

    5. You would be constantly pressured to upgrade your car... Wait a sec, it's that way now!

    6. Sun Motorsystems would make a car that was solar powered, twice as reliable, 5 times as fast, but only ran on 5% of the roads.

    7. The oil, alternator, gas, engine warning lights would be replaced with a single ``General Car Fault'' warning light.

    8. People would get excited about the ``new'' features in Microsoft cars, forgetting completely that they had been available in other brands for years.

    9. We would still be waiting on the ``6000 sux 58' '' model to come out.

    10. We'd all have to switch to Microsoft GasTM.

    11. Lee Iacocca would be hired-on as Bill G.'s chauffeur.

    12. The US government would be getting subsidies from an automaker, instead of giving them.

    13. New seats will force everyone to have the same size ass.

    14. Ford, General Motors and Chrysler would all be complaining because Microsoft was putting a radio in all its models.

  2. Re:Fraid not by be-fan · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I wonder if he got an iPod with that :)

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    A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
  3. Re:Where do you want to go today? by lildogie · · Score: 0, Redundant

    > Microsoft is officially Found On Road Dead

    "Fix Or Repair Daily" is more like it.

  4. Re:What about Burlington in 1999? by cK-Gunslinger · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Now, if only Wal-Mart would make the switch...

  5. Sorry, had to. by irrelevant · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Ford! You're turning into a penguin.

  6. ford by upt1me · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I still won't buy a ford.