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Why Won't Dell Promote Its Linux Desktops?
Brian McCoy writes "In this article, Steven Vaughn-Nichols proclaims "Last Thursday, when I wrote about Dell's new Linux desktop, was one of the most frustrating days of my professional life. My eWEEK colleague John Spooner and I tried our best to get Dell to confess that they really had released an honest-to-God Linux desktop.""
There are plenty of rational reasons why they might not want to advertise it to the mainstream and just leave it to those (geeks) who are looking for it (IE: support is a bitch to grandma who bought the wrong scanner). But I'll give you one better: why should they have to?
They are a company. They can do the hell they want with their products. Michael Dell is making more money than you are, is making more people more money than you are, is making more people more money than any other hardware manufacturer to date, let him play his game. As mentioned in the paragraph prior I see at least 1 damn good reason to do so. Its his company, let him do what he wants with it. His right to do what he wants with his company supercedes your right to see the word "linux" on the front page of dell.com.
I can't tell you when it will happen, but when it does, MS won't know what hit them.
You're right. The most successful company in US history, run by the most successful person in US history will be totally surprised by it. Sure.
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