why I fear open source can't win the war

[James Knott]

Kush wrote:
> Though IBM and others seem to back linux, yet when one goes to buy
> branded laptops, even IBM is selling windows xp preinstalled. Not to
> mention sony, hp, dell etc and the others.

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7778908329.html

BTW, IBM got out of the desktop/notebook computer business about a year ago.

> 
> I went with a friend to a computer shop to look at some of the laptops
> and the sales assistants were not ready to uninstall XP from the IBM
> machines and take off its cost from the sales price.

Would you expect to go into the same computer store and have the clerk
remove the DVD drive and reduce the price?

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