HP Sells Cheap FreeDOS PC in China

Johan writes "HP has started selling a Yuan 3,999 ($483) PC in China. The cool part is that it runs FreeDOS! Not sure why FreeDOS was chosen, but I suspect they expect it to be replaced with Linux or Windows by the user. By not having to pay for Windows, they are able to include better hardware. They probably didn't want the support burden of bundling the PC with a Linux distribution." And while we're on China, Cringely has some prognostication and speculation about IBM's sale of their PC division to a Chinese company.

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We're selling America to China!

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks, George W. Bush! Thank you for bringing the wonders of corporatism and imperialism back to America!

But its ok, since gays can't get married!

All you Chinese people out there

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Re:Why is this news?

[Anonymous Coward]

Because this is slashdot and any Microsoft bashing story gets posted.