[ltp] Re: Lenovo to shun Linux

[Andrew Barr]

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On Tuesday 06 June 2006 09:50, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> In other words, this law does nothing to combat piracy, other than to
> soften the worries of businesses, while doing absolutely nothing to
> fight the copyright violation problem around commercial software
> products.

Yes, because there is a market for no-OS computers, whether the end-user wants 
to install pirated Windows or Linux or something else. Sounds like in China, 
the market is so big that the authorities regard it as a problem. No one in 
the US pays any attention to the barebones PC market, a good portion of which 
probably end up with pirated Windows on them. Hopefully throwing in a CD-ROM 
with FreeDOS or some such on it would satisfy the law. IIRC when Dell was 
(still is?) selling a "Linux" PC (no-OS really) it was preloaded with 
FreeDOS. That is, if you could navigate the web-site maze they put up to get 
to it.

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