Comment Re:Hey Toshiba - how about GNU/Linux? (Score 1) 226
Toshiba chose to do it with Sun out of pity, not because they see a market for it or anything, right?
"GNU/Linux" isn't a product, its just a name that is associated with X number of distributions, only a handful of which have enough corporate muscle behind them to arrange a laptop deal with a vendor like Toshiba or Dell.
The simplistic view that "Ubunto works on Dell" doesn't mean much to the Toshiba or Sun executive who wants to take some of Dell's market share. OpenSolaris works on Dell, too. As do the dozens of other Linux distros and BSD variants.