It cracks me up (Score 1)

I love reading all the time about how Microsoft has a monolopy on the desktop market. Yes if you go to Best Buy or any other big box retailer you only find Windows installed on the PC's or Laptops. What is stopping someone like HP, or Gateway, or Acer, or Toshiba, or anyother computer seller from offering Linux pre-installed? The average Joe off the street does not know what Linux is. This is not a slight on Linux or its useablility. It is the fault of all the distros out there competeing with each other. They need to band together and market the damn thing. Marketing sells people. How many people bought Mac's becuase of the Apple vs. Vista ads??? When was the last time you saw a linux ad on TV?? The last I remember was the IBM push a few years ago, and that was aimed at business users not the people vegging on the couch. If Linux is to make it mainstream, they have to bow to the commerical crowd and Market themselves. The basically need to whore themselves out to the world, and probably set aside some of their moral beliefs with it. People buy windows becuase they see windows. If there was one flavor of Linux which could be marketed to the mass, and sold as just Linux. It would take off with time. Not overnight, not bext year, but over a couple of years. You have too many vendors each with their own flavor, and ways and beliefs. The normal joe will not use linux or think linux until they see it on the shelf, on TV and such. So I do not think Linux will ever take over the desktop market in the US becuase it would mean giving up too much in its grass roots start, and belief system to make it so. Linux will not become the retail whore, that Apple and Microsoft became to make themselves popular.