On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 22:48, Todd Franklin wrote: > You should look into getting one of those walmart Microtel machines if > you want something cheap. What gets me is that alot of the reviewers > bash them because they're slow. HELLO!?! Look at the price! Of course > they're not going to have the speed and performance of a 2GHz + > computer. But if you want a plain old workstation for cheap... not to > mention a free OS, they can't be beat. > More importantly, Walmart has snubbed their nose at Microsoft. Why? > Because Walmart is one of the few companies that can't be bought by > Microsoft. First, they don't rely on PC sales to keep them in business. > Second, they are BIGGER than Microsoft. If Microsoft threatened to > pull their licenses because Walmart is selling PC's with alternative or > no OS on them, then Walmart can afford to give them the finger. > What I like best about it though, is if Walmart is selling PC's with > Linux on them, then you know some slack-jawed yokel in Po-dunk, Arkansas > is using Linux right now! And probably doesn't even know the difference! > That's how the war will be won in the end I think. ;-) > > Todd F. >
I get a kick out of seeing the looks on a customers face when I tell them a brand new PC desktop setup costs $1100AUD WITHOUT Microsoft Windows 98SE or Microsoft WindowsXP - then $1600AUD for the same system WITH either of those OS's...(I won't sell -inexpensive computers- because I don't want to have them coming back for this or that - AND, when I show them an MS system and a linux system side-by-side, the linux system's speed always wins hands-down). The majority of the public doesn't fully understand the market - and that's because the market isn't being "policed" - it's a "buyer beware" market. There is no such thing as free software when you're talking about OEM loads of OS and "others". Gateway WON'T sell "desktops" without an OS because then they'd not really make much off the system. Ditto with other companies. Y'all remember the old ploy by Hewlett-Packard "Comes with $1500 of software free!" - BS - complete BS. Meanwhile, having "yokels" running LINUX is actually a good thing - as I've stated before. If they've never run an OS before, this is a good start for them. Doesn't matter if it's Lindows or any other flavor of linux - but it's linux. Flood the market with it. Once people realize that overall, they've less "virus" worries running linux, they're going to dig on that anyways. -- Thu Nov 14 07:00:00 EST 2002 -------------------------------- | __ __ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;"""/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " |linux user:267497 -------------------------------- Pelorat sighed. "I will never understand people." "There's nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. How would Seldon have worked out his Plan -- and I don't care how subtle his mathematics was -- if he didn't understand people; and how could he have done that if people weren't easy to understand? You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself -- no offense intended." -- Asimov, "Foundation's Edge"
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