On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 16:28, Birt, Jeffrey wrote: > Dell, Gateway, et al preinstall > what the vast majority of their consumers want; Ummm, did you read any of the manufacturer's testimony from the antitrust trial? That made it pretty clear that it wasn't a choice the customers could make - and not much has changed since that I can see. > nobody (relatively > speaking) wants Linux preinstalled so it is not worth their effort to do > so (can you imagine all the whining from Linux folks if their favorite > flavor of Linux was not offered but others ere). IF you are buying lots > of boxes from then they WILL install the OS of your choice (Dell does so > for our university). Do they knock off the price of the MS license when they install something else? > They simply try > to supply what they think their consumers will most likely buy, after > all not many folks would be in the market for a new Mustang sans > tires!!!!! You might still find the vendor comments from the trial around if you think that's why everything ships with windows. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
