Dell: No Ubuntu Linux for business users Comments

InfoWorld Daily by Tom Sullivan - Jun 21, '07 8:47am
Add to Favorites Add to Live.com Add to Google Add to del.icio.us Add to Yahoo! Add to Digg Add to Reddit Add to Technorati Add to StumbleUpon Open source: Dell won accolades when it began offering Linux pre-installed on PCs but, as Matt Asay reports, the hardware maker is only selling those systems to home users and, in fact, even refused a prospective customer who needed to use a business credit card as payment. "Why not let the market decide where Ubuntu will go today? Or was that part of some agreement with Microsoft? 'We'll only let individual Linux freaks buy Ubuntu -- we won't let corporate Linux freaks buy it,'" he writes in this Open Sources post. "Muppets." Careers: Kicking off with a question John West... READ MORE
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