New article in the Economist criticizing Linux usability

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 11:19:39AM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> Further, Microsoft has a history of using "strong arm" tactics
> against manufactures who dared to install other than Windows on PCs.
> Read up on how they refused to license Windows 95 to IBM at the same
> rate as other manufacturers, as long as IBM sold computers with
> OS/2.  Or how they put bogus errors in Windows, when it was run on
> DR-DOS or per CPU licenses whether a computer was shipped with
> Windows or not.  It's a long list of what they've done to block
> competition.

Oh I know.  I have read it all over the years.

But these days they don't even have to do that since there are 3rd
parties giving companies incentives to keep installing windows only.

It's a sad market state.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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