Canonical bribes reporter with free Linux netbook - But he..

AZ Nomad wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 18:57:57 -0500, Ezekiel <zeke.DeleteThis@nosuchdomain.com> wrote:
>
>>"AZ Nomad" <aznomad.3.DeleteThis@PremoveOBthisOX.COM> wrote in message
>>news:slrnhes62e.5tn.aznomad.3@ip70-176-155-130.ph.ph.cox.net...
>>> On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 17:08:18 -0500, Ezekiel <zeke.DeleteThis@nosuchdomain.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>><quote>
>>>>Next, Canonical approaches Rory with an offer to try out Ubuntu 9.10 and
>>>>send him a Dell Inspiron Mini loaded with Karmic Koala. Rory likes the
>>>>faster startup of the Ubuntu box he received. But that seems to be the
>>>>only
>>>>thing he liked.
>>>
>>>>So would I actively seek to install Ubuntu or any other Linux variant on
>>>>a
>>>>machine I already owned?
>>>>To be frank, no, because it would not make my computing life any simpler
>>>>and more pleasurable than it is now.
>>>
>>>></quote>
>>>
>
>>I agree that it's shameless how Linux tries to bribe reporters with free
>>computers. But even with the bribes, the reporters want nothing to do with
>>Linux.
>
> What is sad is that you can't tell the difference between a $350 netbook
> and a $2300 high end laptop.

Maybe if Canonical wasn't so cheap the guy would have taken the computer.
Typical of Linux, go cheap and lose every time.

TomB pulled this Usenet boner:

> On 2009-11-02, the following emerged from the brain of DFS:
>> TomB wrote:
>>
>>> Runs on more hardware than any other OS (Debian runs on 10 different
>>> architectures currently).
>>
>> That's the claim. I'd love to see proof of it.
>
> http://www.debian.org/ports/

It's always a laffer when a Windows guy issues that challenge.

Even though, thanks in part to a lawsuit with DEC, Microsoft had to port it
to the Alpha, and also had it running for awhile on a handful of other
chips.

--
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
-- Wm. Shakespeare, "Henry VI", Part IV