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Re: Linux compatability for IBM desktop machines



On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 06:56:56AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> PS. What's will all these web vendors all of a sudden putting on their 
> sites messages like "* IBM recommends Microsoft ? Windows ? XP 
> Professional"  and "**TigerDirect recommends Microsoft? Windows? XP" and 
> "* Dell recommends Microsoft^?  Windows^?   XP" (all copied from their 
> respective web sites)? It just seems too coordinated, and yet when I 
> wrote to TigerDirect the response "assured" me they did not put that on 
> their web site due to pressure from Microsoft. Uh huh. Okay.

Not just websites. I've seen lots of that in computer ads in newspapers
lately. Makes me want to start selling hardware myself, just so I can put in
the advert "Pigeon Computers recommends Debian GNU/Linux"...

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