Ultimately, there ought to be some law requiring that companies that claim to support a particular spec or standard actually fulfill that obligation or at least have a good faith effort to implement it.
There already are Truth in Advertising laws.
It's been my experience that, when you think "there ought to be a law
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While Steve Ballmer is making threatening noises, DELL has been listening to their customers, and found out that there is big interest for pre-installed Linux. Dell was having some problems with sales earlier on, so this appears to be an attempt to improve this.
Very interesting. Maybe the untapped market here is bigger than anyone thought?
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand