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

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

Jay, Microsoft does not pay Dell (or anybody else) to install their OS.  They give them a price break for volume and easy install media if the vendor cooperates.  The vendors of the add-on crap (yes, Office and/or Works which is a branch of Microsoft admittedly, Intuit, lots of gaming stuff) do pay and they pay well in the hope that the customers will cough up the cash for the full-feature versions (I assume that works, though I note some vendors that used to offer such demos are no longer with us).  If the Microsoft OS side felt a need to destroy GNU/Linux, contracting hits on Linus and RMS would be a lot cheaper.  Trust me, I know a couple of guys in Jersey City who are hurting for work.
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Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net

The reason folks don't think of installing Windows as a painful experience is roughly the same reason men don't think of childbirth as a painful experience.      Mike, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/30/letters_3003/

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Jay Sulzberger <jays at panix.com>
> 
> On Tue, 1 May 2007, Ah Pook <ahpook at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday 01 May 2007 1:51 pm, Jay Sulzberger wrote:
> >> Microsoft pays Dell to only sell Microsoft boxes.  I doubt that,
> >> today, Michael Dell will give up that money so he can sell some
> >> Ubuntu boxes.  In short sight, why should he?
> >
> > Because when he does, you're going to put your money where your mouth is
> > and buy one.
> >
> > Right?
> 
> Please forgive me for being direct: what do you disagree with in
> my statements in this thread?
> 
> oo--JS.