On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Kenney Jacob <[email protected]> wrote: > You can think about it in a different way. Dell comes with pre loaded > windows. If you want Dell, you will have to use windows. If you dont like > windows, dont buy dell. > Its like buying a car, Tata manza comes with a fiat engine. Can you ask them > to give you an option to use a tata engine itself ? If you want a tata > engine, you buy some other car. > Kenney >
If a considerable no. of people write to Dell telling that they are opting for a differrent just because of the compulsory OS inclusion they will change. It has happened many times. If you are part of the OpenSBD-misc list one of the things that happens there is users being told that a driver cannot be written because the documentation of such and such hardware is not released to the public. The users take up the issue and get the email of concerned people and mass mail them asking to release documentation. Many of the Documentation for modern hardware was released in that way. The details are all available on the internet mailinglist archives. Of course they don't sign NDA with the vendors like Linux Developers so the documentation is free for all. Instead of trying to teach eacho other the differences and superiority of one Open Source Licence over the other if we can get a few Dell email address and mass mail them and post things on our blogs and twitter/what ever etc we can expect some change. What Dell is doing is business if they find they lose bugs because of their policy they will change. Even if they don't some other competitor will try to take advantage of this issue. Cahnging the engine is difficult. Changing the OS is as simple as 'fdisk'. They can do it with out any probs. --Siju _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
