[ltp] Bad news for us ...

[Duncan Anderson]

On Sunday, 4 June 2006 15:08, Kris Steenhaut wrote:
> David A. Desrosiers ha scritto:
> >	In the end, there are plenty of vendors who DO support Linux (though
> >perhaps not publically) on their hardware.
>
> Indeed. Right to the point.
>
> Therefore my suggestion to change the name of the group into Linux-laptop.
>
> No need to give Lenovo a free commercial, and on the other hand people
> should realize there ARE (= is now in Juin 2006) better solutions than
> Lenovo laptops.
>
> --
> Groeten uit Gent,
>
>    Kris

I have always been under the impression that this mailing list is for people 
with Thinkpads, whether they are IBM or Lenovo. It is meaningless 
sentimentalism to say that an IBM Thinkpad is the "real" thing and that a 
Lenovo isn't. I have a "Lenovo" Thinkpad (Z60m) and it seems just as sturdy 
and Linux-compatible as my old T22 was. In fact, it seems even more sturdy in 
some ways. 

I agree with most of the posters to this thread who feel somehow threatened by 
Lenovo marketing droids' sucking up to Microsoft, but, as someone pointed 
out, most users of the machines are Windoze users. 

I do believe that computers should be sold with operating systems such as 
Windows as optional extras, so that those people who wish to use Linux or 
Solaris or FreeBSD, etc., may do so without paying the insidious Microsoft 
tax, but I am not naive enough to believe that OEMs are likely to do so to 
any appreciable extent in the near future.


cheers
Duncan

		
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