What makes so many of you think this is a good thing? Walmart isn't making this move in order to support OSS or promote Linux. They're doing it to sell cheap computers. They couldn't care less about Linux.
What I see happening is a bunch of people buying these Lindows boxes believing that they can run any Windows software on it. When they find out this is not the case, they'll blame Linux/Lindows. Then they will have a (albeit misguided) distaste for Linux and be convinced that MS is the only way to go.
I don't see this as any kind of victory. I see it as a disaster waiting to happen.
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Define "deal with". A Libertairian government would only go so far as to prevent them from infringing on the individual liberties of others.
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What makes so many of you think this is a good thing? Walmart isn't making this move in order to support OSS or promote Linux. They're doing it to sell cheap computers. They couldn't care less about Linux.
What I see happening is a bunch of people buying these Lindows boxes believing that they can run any Windows software on it. When they find out this is not the case, they'll blame Linux/Lindows. Then they will have a (albeit misguided) distaste for Linux and be convinced that MS is the only way to go.
I don't see this as any kind of victory. I see it as a disaster waiting to happen.