why I fear open source can't win the war

[Kush]

James Knott wrote:
> 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
>   
This is some news but will it happen in Toronto is the key question. 
Here we don't generally see Lenovo computers but more of IBM.
> 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?
>
>
>   
Maybe the clerk would be more customer oriented if there was competition 
in the market (like the US) and more people knew or asked for what they 
wanted. At present this place looks to be a sellers market where the 
sellers have an attitude--take it or leave it.

Kush

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