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On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 20:14 -0400, Alex Launi wrote:
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> When Was it that you spoke with them? They have been offering PCs with
> free-dos for quite a while, and now as we all know Ubuntu pre-installed,
> so there is the avoiding the MS tax even if you don't use Ubuntu.
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> As for corporate customers, there's been lots of noise recently about
> them starting to sell Linux to SMBs. I think the rumour is that the
> official announcement is going to be at LinuxWorld.
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> > * There are no plans to offer corporate linux anywhere on the horizon.
> >
> > * Dell cannot sell anything but a server w/o an OS. Period. If you
> > want to install linux, you still have to pay the MS Tax.
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For those of you who don't get Linux Journal there was a sidebar in the
June 2007 issue about this subject. Here are some links that might be
of interest:
http://www.dellideastorm.com/recent check out the "Ideas in Action"
tab
http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board?board.id=sw_linux
Jon
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