On 17 January 2011 13:41, alan c <aecl...@candt.waitrose.com> wrote: > On 17/01/11 11:38, Sean Miller wrote: > > And, to be honest, I'm not too worried about "personalized attention" when >> installing if I am going to save £100 on the retail cost of the laptop... >> it >> >> will presumably "work out of the box"... where I might need the support is >> later >> > > If you are happy to 'risk' that your purchase might not work completely > with your chosen OS, then I agree that you would certainly pay a highter > price to use a specialist (Ubuntu) store. >
No, what I was saying was that a company could buy laptops that are proven to work with Linux (it isn't hard to check!) in bulk from people like DSG and then install Linux from a disc image. That is not a case of "might not work completely"... the company selling will know they work completely. > For me, if, say, a laptop webcam was important to me, I would want to know > it worked before I committed. > I'm not talking individuals here, I'm talking a supplier. > And if I had a dislike for a large software company that has pretty well a > monopoly, how would I feel when - with my own money, my hard earned cash - I > later saw them advertising how many of this or that version they *sold* last > year, including to me? > > If low cost is very important, then, yes, ethical decisions become difficul Well, if the machines came with Microsoft installed then I suppose it will be a statistic, but to be brutally honest I don't give a damn about statistics. Microsoft can CLAIM to have this percentage, or that percentage, of users. Ultimately it doesn't matter. Sean
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