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Not as extreme as GI's initiative, a reasonable approach ...
George Mitchell 28th Sep 2007
George Ou is right on the mark on this. The GI recommendation is rather extreme and a bit punitive. There ARE people who DO want a Windows PC. The GI recommendation would punish them just as it attempts to punish the monopolist. End users should have a choice of Windows installed, Linux installed or no installed OS. Thus it would make more sense to REQUIRE OEMs to offer (at least some) systems loaded with Linux as well as all models available optionally as naked PCs. This would not only make things easier for the consumer. It would also encourage OEMs to be more proactive in making sure they offer hardware that is supported by Linux drivers. To force everyone to buy a naked PC and then have to load the OS themselves would likely create a huge mess with driver support since the OEMs would then be free to duck responsibility in that realm. Just imagine! I could very well end up being hardware hell for everybody as the OEM could dump responsibility on the component vendor and the component vendor back on the ORM leaving the end user up a creek.
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