On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 06:30, Norton wrote: > Well, here in England you rarely see products in whichyou can read > something like "suitable for linux"...and when you ask the customer's > service, they know nothing about compatibility issues... > > Of course, I'm talking about personal computers...what I found > interesting is that IBM is spending a huge amount of money advertising > linux here, but they have no linux laptop to sell (I didn't check > desktops)... this sounds, at least, controversial... I mean, somebody > could think, "if linux is so good as claims ibm, why don't they sell > products with it?" (again, talking about personal computers). That's nothing new... Ever try ordering OS/2 on an IBM? It was their OS, and they still sold Windows on their systems.. -- Homer Parker /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign BOFH for homershut.net \ / No HTML/RTF in email http://www.homershut.net x No Word docs in email telnet://bbs.homershut.net / \ Respect for open standards "Bill Gates reports on security progress made and the challenges ahead." -- Microsoft's Homepage, on the day an SQL Server bug crippled large sections of the Internet.
