On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 16:22 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: > On 6/16/06, Gerald Thompson <geraldlt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > We can preach all day about MS Windows though, and I am quite sure a > > lot of you will, but most companies look at the bottom line and the > > majority of people calling in to the sales office want MS Windows. > > Should they give people the option of Linux, yes, and eventually they > > will more and more often. We just have to keep applying pressure on > > them. For now though I am not going to cry too much about it, I have > > no problem taking my free MS Windows CD, tossing it on the shelf, > > formatting the HD and throwing Fedora on, or better yet, just going to > > a parts store and building my own system. > > > That CD isn't free. If it's true that you pay more for a workstation > with RedHat installed then are MS getting the money anyway, > or do you get the RH support? You get the RedHat support, or Suse w/ Suse support. 1 or 3 year subscriptions available. http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=sc430sapp&s=bsd > -- > imalone Mike -- Michael H. Warfield (AI4NB) | (770) 985-6132 | mhw@xxxxxxxxxxxx /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ | (678) 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471 | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!
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