[nylug-talk] Finally, some closure on all the Dell anti-FOSS conspiracy threads...

[Ron Guerin]

forest wrote:
> Once the rumours started flying, Dell has apparently owned up to it in a
> press release:
> 
> They will be shipping Ubuntu "within weeks"
> 
> Dell To Offer Ubuntu Systems In 'Weeks' - Software - IT Channel News by CRN
> and VARBusiness <http://www.crn.com/software/199202846>

Just because Michael Dell is an opportunist doesn't mean he's any friend
of Linux.  I still think it would be a shame for Linux users to support
a company that has not simply been indifferent, but unfriendly to Linux
for a long, long time.  Dell is not our friend, and Michael Dell running
Ubuntu at home hardly means he's changed, it only means he sees a buck
to be made and/or squeezed out of Microsoft at their next negotiation.

If anything of any real importance has changed, I'm not seeing it.

- Ron