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Comment Re:98's out, ubuntu is in (Score 1) 491

by way2drunk on Wednesday September 20, 2006 @03:55AM (#16144332) Attached to: Can Linux Pick Up Users Abandoning Win98?

I think linux's best chance in the market for "users" is to get a big vendor like Dell or HP to start including a mainstream distro like Ubuntu or SuSE on their low-to-midrange desktops

Actually HP in Greece does that. They ship PCs with SUSE installed for less than $500 [e.g. HP dx6120 microtower (EP692ES)]. With specs that should be adequate for the average home user.
I have links but the pages are in Greek. :)

MS Four Points of Interoperability and Adobe 274

Posted by Zonk on Sunday June 04, 2006 @06:10PM from the learning-experience dept.

Andy Updegrove writes "Recently, spokespersons for Microsoft's standards group have been promoting 'design, collaboration and licensing' as alternatives, rather than supplements to, open standards. There's an important difference between an open standard and any of these ad hoc arrangements among companies, however, and that is the fact that with a standard, everybody knows that they can get what everybody else can get, and on substantially the same terms. With a de facto standard, that's not the case - as Microsoft itself found out last week when Adobe refused to offer the same deal on saving files in PDF form that Apple and OpenOffice enjoy."

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