On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 22:31 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Kevin Mark writes: > > the cost of dell (or other products) includes window support and payments > > from Microsoft and other software makers. This is almost the 'profit' to > > dell. With an o/s less computer, they would not get this 'profit'... > > You are not making sense. Rest assured that there is a _large_ flow of > money from Dell to Microsoft. > > > Unless they said that you would not get any support and you'd have to pay > > for it from a 3rd party. > > The sensible way to handle hardware support independent of any installed > software would be to ship each pc with a bootable CD with custom Dell test > software. Linux would make a convenient base for such a CD.
IBM does this already for the X series servers. Patch sets, firmware updates, OS installs. IBM has been doing this since 1999, that I recall. It would be exceptionally simple to make a LiveCD with firmware, BIOS, and diag tools to make thing easy. Think, that is 1 relatively talented person can re-spin Knoppix or other LiveCDs how hard would it be for *DELL* to do it? Not very. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
