Re: OT: Yet Another Unhappy Customer for Vista

JeffM wrote:
The trick seems to be *choose well-supported hardware*.
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/15/1619251&threshold=5&mode=nested&simpledesign=1&lowbandwidth=1#19133771
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/23/1355242&threshold=5&mode=nested&simpledesign=1&lowbandwidth=1#19240795

The Real Andy wrote:
Everything I buy seems to have MS support. I wonder why.

Actually,
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/images/ols_2006_keynote_24.jpg
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/images/ols_2006_keynote_04.jpg
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=210154&cid=17125164&threshold=5&mode=nested#17125164

If your vendors are among those
who do everything possible to thwart open source, well...

Give me a break. My vendor, along with every other business
is going to support what is commercially successful for them.
Give me a good reason why [they] should not?

"If you always do what you've always done,
you'll always get what you've always gotten."
AKA: A pretty poor way to expand your market share.

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