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Why Won't Dell Promote Its Linux Desktops?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the soemthing-to-think-about dept.

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.""

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  1. OK, I'll float the cynical questions by smittyoneeach · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is there a Majority Shareholder keeping Linux support at the lip service level?
    Or, do Dell's executives own Massive Stacks of certain stock?
    Maybe Somebody would be Mighty Sore at Mr. Dell if he Mustered Sufficient courage to Make Significant choice available to people.
    Ah, Monopolistic Speculation: gotta love it.

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  2. Support. by DogDude · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's very simple. Support will be an absolute nightmare. The few hundred bucks per machine that they're charging over Windows doesn't come close to paying the bill of the support that the "average" computer users would need if they actually bought these things. They want to make sure that people who buy them REALLY want them and know how to use them, already.

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