Re: [News] ASUS Loses by Surrendering to Microsoft Pressure

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:02:30 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

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> More evidence of Microsoft "tying up" the Asus EeePC

Asus is in business to sell products.
Windows based products (PCs) sell.
Linux based products (PC's) are pikers.....

Yet another example of the lack of interest from the general public in
Linux.

You can try and explain it away using any conspiracy theory you like but
the truth of the matter is consumer desktop Linux is ignored.

Walmart found out.
HP in Austrailia found out.
Redhat found out.
Suse found out.
BestBuy found out.

And now Asus has found out.


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On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:38:16 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:02:30 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> More evidence of Microsoft "tying up" the Asus EeePC
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> Asus is in business to sell products. Windows based products (PCs) sell.
> Linux based products (PC's) are pikers.....
>
> Yet another example of the lack of interest from the general public in
> Linux.
>
> You can try and explain it away using any conspiracy theory you like but
> the truth of the matter is consumer desktop Linux is ignored.
>
> Walmart found out.

.... and sells Linux based machines.

> HP in Austrailia found out.

Dunno.

> Redhat found out.

Never sold computers.

> Suse found out.
> BestBuy found out.

When did Best Buy sell Linux based machines?

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> And now Asus has found out.

....buy selling out of their product.


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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Rick
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on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:46:49 -0500
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> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:38:16 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
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>> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:02:30 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> More evidence of Microsoft "tying up" the Asus EeePC
>>
>> Asus is in business to sell products. Windows based products (PCs) sell.
>> Linux based products (PC's) are pikers.....
>>
>> Yet another example of the lack of interest from the general public in
>> Linux.
>>
>> You can try and explain it away using any conspiracy theory you like but
>> the truth of the matter is consumer desktop Linux is ignored.
>>
>> Walmart found out.
>
> ... and sells Linux based machines.

Not sure about that anymore. "Find the perfect Desktop"
show either XP Home or Vista Premium on the top part.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.gsp?cat=41937

There is an Acer Everex offering gOS v2, though,
if one pokes around a bit:

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...Specifications

though nowhere on the webpage does it state that it's a Linux OS.

This is not good...either users will confuse gOS with some
variant of XP, which will give Microsoft's system support
bunch a variety of headaches if the system has problems
(hardware or software), or they will think it's Genuine
Windows(tm) and be ultra happy, giving Microsoft brownie
points they simply don't deserve.

Or they'll actually know gOS is Linux, and overwrite it
with something they like, if they don't like it already. ;-)
But that's for those "in the know".

As for gOS being "the most addicting"...an interesting claim,
but I'm not sure how truthful it is. ;-)

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>> HP in Austrailia found out.
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> Dunno.
>
>> Redhat found out.
>
> Never sold computers.
>
>> Suse found out.
>> BestBuy found out.
>
> When did Best Buy sell Linux based machines?

I'm not sure they do, though they do sell Ubuntu Linux for $19.99.
That's the only thing their search coughed up.

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>> And now Asus has found out.
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> ...buy selling out of their product.
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Rick <> wrote:
> > BestBuy found out.
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> When did Best Buy sell Linux based machines?

Asus EEE, up until recently.

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