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Dell Protests 'Not Wintel's Lapdog'
An anonymous reader writes "C|Net is reporting on a protestation by Dell's CTO, Kevin Kettler, who says quite loudly that they are not Microsoft and Intel's puppet." From the article: "Essentially, Kettler argued, Dell was responsible for selecting, if not necessarily developing, many of the technologies in today's desktop computers and servers. Among standards for which he said Dell deserves credit are 802.11 wireless networking, PCI Express communications technology and 64-bit extensions to Intel's x86 line of processors."
First post!!
-Mantra-
Why does my Dell Inspiron laptop of three years ago still beats Dell's current offerings? In fact, if I want a better laptop than what I got today for the same price that I paid three years ago, I would have to go with Alienware. I think my next laptop will probably be a dual-booting MacBook.
And he never claimed to have done anything more than that.
"I took the initiative in creating the Internet. Look, I know Slashdot is a leftist, Democrat hellhole, but take a deep breath and realize Gore is a kook. The guy's running around telling people the world's going to end when according to official global temperature records, temperatures have not risen since 1998. That's information you'll never, ever hear about on CNN, DailyKos, major newspapers, or any of the other liberal media outlets who want you to think industrial America is a scourge of the earth so that they can feel better about themselves for being so "enlightened" about the lesser peons around them.
Remember that in the 70s, we were supposed to be in a "new Ice Age" by now. Ha.