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Linspire CEO Offers S. Korea To Replace Windows
Spy der Mann writes "Noticing the Microsoft threat to withdraw Windows from South Korea, the Linspire CEO, Kevin Carmony, just offered to license every computer in the country with Linspire, for just $5m. This would be around 10 cents / person. 'South Korea could save around a quarter of a billion dollars. More importantly, however, it would break South Korea loose from the monopolistic grasp of Microsoft, which the country currently finds itself under,'"
Cool, just do it
Linspire will replace crippled Windows with Linux - cheap
...This is about as close to a Linux port as WoW is gonna get I think...
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I'd suggest Gentoo but they'd have to build more power stations to cope with millions of CPUs at 100% for 3 or 4 days.
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... only old people will keep using MS Windows.
I'll give you South Korea.
Where do I sign up?
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could he really support all of South Korea?
He, he could. He could direct all of Korea to Linux
newsgroups & mailing lists, where geeks will flame
Koreans to code fixes what bugs they find.
they have starcraft for linux
Not quite true, microsoft will end up leaving Korea, just like it will inevitably leave every other place on the world, apart from two particular resindences in the US, where a rather pathetic and disreputable duo will mull over what was and sulk about what could have been ;-).
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How many windows do they have in South Korea? I just had seven fitted for 500 quid. I think South Korea is getting a bargin!
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Linspire CEO Offers S. Korea To Replace Windows
It definitely sounds like an interesting idea, but how is South Korea going to run on my machine? Plus, having the whole country installed on my drive sounds like it will take up a _lot_ of space...
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He's going to provide support for 50 million computers at 10 cents each? Would be quite tough.
Wouldn't be hard at all, if he's just going to match the support Microsoft provides.
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That is one generous offer by the Linspire CEO. I give up Windows and he will give me South Korea? I would take him up on the offer but I would be kind of nervous about North Korea blowing it up. Plus Windows probably has a lower cost of operation than entire country of South Korea.
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I'll be sure to brush up on how to say "RTFM" in Korean.
Well it's better than those capitalist pigs!
I think I heard once that only old koreans use newsgroups and mailing lists.
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The headline currently reads "Linspire CEO Offers S. Korea To Replace Windows" which led me to wonder:
Is S. Korea Linspire CEO's to offer?
Is S. Korea a viable alternative to Windows?
Are there any benchmarks on S. Korea's performance on general desktop tasks?
Isn't this solution a bit excessive?
But Starcraft runs under WINE, so there's no reason not to switch to Linux!