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Dell and Linux: just another fan dance

Posted by Aladdin_Sane on · 5 comments
iTWire AU; By Sam Varghese
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Dell is down on its luck a bit and recently decided that it needed to look like a good citizen. So the company put out an invitation seeking ideas from the "community" on a new website called IdeaStorm which apes the model created by Digg.

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Looking for a better expression for what Dell is trying to carry out other than doing a "fan dance" or "raising false hopes". Anyone have such an expression?? The antonym of this would be something like FUD.
> "fan dance"

That could work :)

/me sees Dell as a really ugly overweight bear doing a fan dance....
It was simple security that moved me to Linux (and laziness). I no longer wanted to buy into the Windows need for anti Virus software, and small but significant amounts of my time that was required to keep the system secure.

It is the reasons stated in this article http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?p=264&more=1&c=1&tb=... that keep me with Linux, and I've seen nothing about Vista that even temps me to run it as a second system on a virtual machine. As far as I am concerned Microsoft bankrupted any desire I might have had to use their products a long time ago.

I'd gladly pay what Microsoft are charging, for the top end Vista version, for any distribution of Linux. In fact if Dell actually had a clue, they could easily get away with charging more for a Linux equipped box than they currently charge for a windows box.
@vainreenr

In USiAn Beltway parlance[1] that's called the "Potomac Two-step".

[1] In the U.S. of A. there are two different countries: Inside the District of Columbia Beltway Highway and outside of it. Very different planets I might add.
>In USiAn Beltway parlance[1] that's called the "Potomac Two-step".

Not to be confused with the "Texas Two Step", the Potomac Two-step is actually a derivative of the "Potomac Two-Face".

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