Submission + - OEM Linux or OEM Windows?
Efialtis writes: "I read the SlashDot article "Ask Slashdot: Time For Anti-Trust 2.0?" and many of the comments. This has now prompted me to ask one more question, but one that needs refining and maybe a little "inside knowledge" from people in the Computer Hardware industry.
If Acer and others are so upset at Microsoft for developing a basic version of Vista that "no one wants to ship it" and the price of Vista is so high that computer sales will be affected, shouldn't Acer, Dell, Gateway, and others take that money they would have spent on Microsoft operating systems and invest that money into a Linux distro (Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, etc) and then provide Linux as a selection for the operating system on their machines?
The way I see it, the price of the computer systems would remain the same, but more money would be put into the research and development of more user-friendly Linux distributions, and Linux would be distributed to more people. It sounds to me like a Win-Win situation.
What do the rest of you think?"
If Acer and others are so upset at Microsoft for developing a basic version of Vista that "no one wants to ship it" and the price of Vista is so high that computer sales will be affected, shouldn't Acer, Dell, Gateway, and others take that money they would have spent on Microsoft operating systems and invest that money into a Linux distro (Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, etc) and then provide Linux as a selection for the operating system on their machines?
The way I see it, the price of the computer systems would remain the same, but more money would be put into the research and development of more user-friendly Linux distributions, and Linux would be distributed to more people. It sounds to me like a Win-Win situation.
What do the rest of you think?"
