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Countering the Arguments Against Unbundling Windows
An anonymous reader sends in a link to a blog posting by Con Zymaris arguing for competition regulators to force the unbundling of Windows from consumer PCs. The argument takes the form of knocking down one by one the objections raised by "unbundling skeptics."
Actually, I think you're missing the point - competition only works when there is no pre-existing monopoly that got there via illegal means
You are making excuses. You want Linux powered PCs, make them and sell them. Microsoft does not control CPUs, motherboards, or cases or keyboards. You can go right ahead and make PCs, and put Linux on them, and sell them. There's absolutely no reason a consumer could not benefit from that offering, and its not Microsoft's fault that you Linux people are too big of pussies to actually sell your own offerings.
The craziest part is, you obsess over Dell PCs, and Dell's are the biggest stock part PCs of them all. They don't do anything special - stock motherboards, stock CPUs, stock graphics cards. There's nothing Dell puts into a PC that you could not put into yours when you sell it.
What's the mental inhibition that precludes any of you from making a Linux powered PC, picking up the phone, calling Walmart, or hell, even a smaller store, and selling them?
You people are lazy!
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There's tons of Windows users out there who are only a hard disk away from running linux. They get to keep all their old data, they don't have to shell out big bucks for the latest bloatware, etc.
Well, given the size of a Linux distro, I wouldn't be so hesitant to call it something other than bloatware. Face it, all software is fat these days. Even C++, supposedly lean and mean, seduces us with the bloat of STL.
If every linux user did this for just 2 people this Christmas, Microsofts' stranglehold on the market would be over in a year.
Why take that attitude? Consider the example of Mr. Toyoda, or Mr. Honda. Mr. Honda didn't even make cars at first - he did motorized bicycles. After the war, both guys gradually built up their businesses, and then kept on working and improving, until they arrived rather successfully in the USA against a supposedly invincible GM.
Nope, you don't need everyone in the Linux camp handing out hard drives like Scientologists hand out Dianetics. Instead, you need a handful of really motivated Linux folks selling Linux PCs. If you do that, and you can sell consumers on the advantages of Linux, then, you have yourselves a product, and from there, that company could go and invest in Linux open source. Really, all you need to do is set up a Linux PC company and run it kinda like the way Apple does..
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