Now THIS is advocacy!

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 06:27:40PM -0500, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> I think you're missing the point. The likelihood that most folks on this 
> list don't use Dell is irrelevant.

I guess I simply don't believe that people who would even consider doing
anything other than what everybody else does would even consider buying
a dell (unless company policy dictated to them by someone that ought to
know better tells them they must buy dell).

> The purpose of advocacy is not to make the point to folks who already 
> get it. If Dell -- either the #1 or #2 PC maker worldwide -- can be 
> convinced to offer Linux pre-installs as an option to the current 
> Windows tax, that is a IMO great advance. It helps reach people who 
> neither know nor care about the innards of their computers. Most people 
> who care about what go into their PCs are likely already aware of Linux, 
> even if they don't use it.

And if they don't know, are they going to order a dell with ubuntu?  If
they do (possibly by accident because it is now an option and it costs
less (dell must sell a lot based on costs less given their adds for
special buys which are the lowest end scrapings they can put together))
then what is going to happen when they can't install their windows game
on it or can't install microsoft office that they pirated of their budy?

I just don't think Dell wants that tech support nightmare.

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