Slightly OT: Must Linux buy its way onto the desktop?

[Mike McCarty]

Rickey Moore wrote:
> 
> --- taharka <res00vl8 at alltel.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Feb. 08, 2006
>>
>>As you may know, Google is close to making a deal with Dell in
>>which the
>>search giant will get to preinstall its software package on Dell
>>PCs.
>>What you may not know is that Google may be spending a billion
>>dollars
>>over three years for the privilege.
>>
>>Full story at; http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2572482759.html
> 
> 
> I think they would be better served, publicity wise, if they would
> put 100,000,000 $100 MIT/RH laptops into the hands of the
> underpriviledged would-be Google users of the world, over the next
> three years, instead of Dell. That would be of direct service towards
> mankind, not a corporation. 

Corporations *are* human beings, working in concert.

Mike
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