-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:31:07PM -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. What comprises this money? > > > 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. This is something I have mentioned in other places: bios updates, hardware testing and other issues. You need a linux-based or similar test cd so that if have a hardware issue or need a bios update that the tech support folks stop saying 'but you need to use windows for us to diagnose the problem before we can authorizes this' or similar. - -K - -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
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