Many valid points.
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| JaseP Nov 09, 2010 11:54 AM EDT |
There are many valid points in his article. What we Linux enthusiasts should be concerned with is not a comparison to M$ or Apple, but just getting a complete computing experience. The problem is that through those companies trying to lock us out, either by hardware or by some software functionality, they, in the words of that (in)famous fictional mobster, "keep pulling [us] back in." We have to resort to fighting them back, and it just opens the whole thing back up. M$ & Apple can't just leave us alone, because to them, we ought to be using their stuff & paying tribute to them for what they delude themselves into believing [or outright lie about] they "invented." Like M$ with patenting the off button. |
| Steven_Rosenber Nov 09, 2010 4:59 PM EDT |
I think this TOTALLY matters. Preloads and OEM/hardware-vendor support are what any OS needs. Linux ain't getting them. |
| JaseP Nov 09, 2010 7:14 PM EDT |
Not sure what you mean by the "this"... What matters? Comparisons? Oh, & Linux is getting more OEM support than you might suspect at first instance. Dell, HP, & others are supplying them more & more. Where the lock-out happens is not with the vendors that supply machines with Linux. It's with specialty hardware (MIDs, etc) & vendors that allow themselves to be bought, rather than use Linux as a means to get better M$ OS pricing. |
| Steven_Rosenber Nov 09, 2010 11:54 PM EDT |
This = Linux being competitive with Windows |
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