And just a random trivia about HP: their vice-president of printers is LDS (his son was a mission companion of mine).
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:46:22PM -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 21:11, Bryan Murdock wrote: > > <sarcasm> > > Yeah, I guess there are no _major_ investments from HP there. Just fair > > weather Linux supporters. It'll probably pass... > > </sarcasm> > > HP does have a fairly large product line based on Linux. But as the > previous poster mentioned, it is all about marketing. To the masses, HP > hasn't pushed linux that hard in the past. They have pushed it better > than Dell, which really doesn't do Linux at all, despite their claims. > You can get a Dell with Linux on it for a server, but not a desktop > presently, at least not according to their television ads and marketing > campaigns. > > Also, HP did lose a huge amount of appeal to existing linux geeks when > they dumped Perens (even though I'm sure Perens isn't totally innocent > in his firing). > > I love HP printers and Linux, though. Many of their printers (even some > inkjets) support Postscript and PCL, making them truly useful printers, > unlike the winprinters, although HP has better support in Linux for > their winprinters than almost all venders. > > So I do solute HP's efforts. I will watch for their Linux ads on TV > > > > > Nothing against IBM at all, I'm very grateful for their backing of Linux > > too, but just because HP didn't paint Linux graffiti on New York > > sidewalks doesn't mean they are just a fair-weather friend of Linux. :P > > Of course. When the money dries up, I expect IBM to move on to the next > big thing. Anyway. I'm grateful for corporate support generally. > > > > > Bryan > > > > P.S. Originally I was really just trying to show that Mandrake was not > > dead, not defend my employer... > > True true. Mandrake has been good competition for RedHat. I do hope > they survive. > > Michael > > > > > > > -- > Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list >
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