[ltp] Re: Lenovo to shun Linux

[Grant Williamson]

Article is incorrect ..

http://www.crn.com/sections/infrastructure/infrastructure.jhtml?articleId=188701277

Bill Wohler wrote:
> 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
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>
> I just sent Lenovo the following email. I encourage *all* of you to do
> the same. While I wouldn't expect it to change their policy, it just
> might, and it certainly wouldn't hurt. Feel free to borrow as much as
> my text as you'd like.
>
>   http://www.lenovo.com/scripts/contact/contact3/us/en
>
>
> Dear Lenovo representative,
>
> I have just learned that you have officially stopped supporting Linux.
> The news is distressing for many reasons and I would encourage you to
> rethink this strategy.
>
> The ThinkPad is one of the best laptops for many reasons, and one of
> those reasons is that it is reasonably well supported on Linux. It
> could actually be even better supported, not less, and I fear that
> your decision may send many of us to other manufacturers. For example,
> I persuaded my last company to switch from Dell to the ThinkPad since
> the laptop ran both Windows and Linux equally well. Have you taken
> away my ability to argue for ThinkPads at my next company?
>
> You might have based your decision on the number of laptops being sold
> with Windows. Considering that nearly 100% of the machines are sold
> with Windows, it is surprising that there as many Linux installations
> as there are. If you were to sell 100% of your laptops with Linux, I'd
> bet that eventually the numbers of Windows machines would drop below
> the current number of Linux machines as users discover that computing
> does not necessarily mean viruses and reboots.
>
> IBM has been a company that has given Linux users hope that when they
> call a company for support, their first level support personal
> actually have a checkbox for Linux. Lenovo should continue to carry
> that torch.
>
> Thanks for your attention.
>
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