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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: Licensing (Was: [kde-promo] What's the community up to?)
From:       Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-12-09 8:41:13
Message-ID: 200412090941.14547.schumacher () kde ! org
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On Thursday, 9. December 2004 06:01, Aaron Seigo wrote:
> 
> ... which is chosen by the people who make those computers for the same
> reasons I outlined. there is no mandate today to ship with Windows.
> WalMart's selling Linux desktops, even. and yet you are right that 98% of
> computer come with Windows preinstalled. this is in response to market
> demand, and in response to the application availability. everything i said
> stands.

Do you really think computers are shipped with Windows because manufacturers 
think that for their customers Windows provides the better applications? You 
can't be so naive. Microsoft has a long tradition of pressing manufacturers 
to bundle their hardware with Windows by all kind of arguments, be it legal 
or illegal.

> yes, let's just destroy KDE and all other Open Software software instead.
> as winter sets in in the Northern Hemisphere, i can't help but harken back
> on history and think that Napolean would be proud.

I don't understand what you mean by that.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>
 
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