[ltp] Re: Lenovo to shun Linux

[Tony K.]

But the difference would be 1000 or 5000 or 10,000 emails wanting
linux (perhaps in a short time period?).  How many emails will they
get asking them to support Windows?  or not-linux?   Probably none.

On 6/4/06, Bill Hudacek <hudacek@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry - can't resist - this makes it 950 Million Windows Users (per Gartner
> group 2005), and 1 linux user :-)
>
> Even if it were 10,000 linux users - all of whom wrote email - that's a
> ratio of 95,000 to 1.
>
> Your heart's in the right place, and I'm very much a kindred soul,
> but.....there are economies of scale, and then there are economies of scale.
>
> For my part, I'm with some who have already said it very well indeed - I
> won't get upset until/unless thinkpads start to include hardware (most
> notably, video and network components) for which no linux support is
> possible.  Special-purpose (ahem) hardware such as has been rumored to exist
> in the past by conspiracy theorists (such as wireless cards, which have
> given me fits for a few years now).
>
> Regards,
>
>  Bill Hudacek
>  IBM Global Services
>
> linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org wrote on 06/04/2006
> 09:29:34 PM:
>
>
>  > Rob Bell <RobDBell@mailworks.org> writes:
>  >
>  > > Straight from Slashdot & Digg, a sign that any strides towards Linux
>  > > support that IBM made are being negated by Lenovo:
>  > >
>  > >
> http://www.crn.com/sections/infrastructure/infrastructure.jhtml?
>  > articleId=188701277
>  >
>  > I just sent Lenovo the following email.
>
> <snip>