Intel Helping Asia to Use Linux

sameerdesai writes "Seattletimes is carying this story on Intel helping major countries like China and India to help build Linux machines as an alternative to Microsoft Windows. It definitely looks like both Microsoft and Intel are using the big potential market in Asia to establish a foothold. Microsoft is using its scare tactics to warn of possible lawsuits because Linux violates about 228 patents. What do fellow slashdotters think on trends of OS and hardware in Asia will be?"

Comments

Re:FUD

[ggvaidya]

ad hom, mate. also Sameer has a better record than you do. I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but ad homs are icky.

Re:Slashdot: Helping Foreigners to Speak English

[Quobobo]

There's something wrong here. I'm a native English speaker, and both "..helping Asia use Linux" and "...helping Asia to use Linux" sound fine to me. Which is correct, and which has become so widely used that I can't figure out if it's wrong?

Re:what?

[puddpunk]

it's rather small...

I HAVE ONE MODERATOR POINT LEFT

[Anonymous Coward]

and I'm not fucking afraid to use it! Don't even think about pissing me off!

What's so great about Windows?

[martinultima]

There's just one thing I don't get: Why would anyone want to use Windows?

Linux is:

• Free
• Open-source
• Relatively bug-free
• Virus-free
• Worm-free
• Stable
• Secure
• More powerful
  • Raw device access
  • Can work with any file system
  • Text or graphical mode
• Runs on a much wider range of hardware
• Prettier :-)
• ...

Windows is:

• Expensive
• Proprietary
• Buggy
• Virus-filled
• Worm-filled
• Unstable
• Insecure
• Nowhere near powerful
  • NO raw device access
  • Can work with any file system, so long as it's NTFS or FAT
  • NO TEXT MODE
• Runs on a much narrower range of hardware
• Uglier (who the hell would want to use "Windows XP style" or "Luna"??)
• ...

Where exactly is the advantage of Windows here?

(Oh, and Windows isn't easier to use either - I found that Slackware's text-administration tools and editing text files are actually much simpler and more straightforward than a slow, buggy, and poorly-designed graphical administration tool. And don't get me started on XP's "Find" tool...)