<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 06/12/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">David</b> <<a href="mailto:david@aliada.plus.com">david@aliada.plus.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<pre>On 12/6/2007, "Anthony Newman" <a href="mailto:anthony.newman@ossified.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><anthony.newman@ossified.net></a> wrote:<br><br>
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<pre>This makes my blood boil :(<br><br> </pre>
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<pre>Could you "crush a grape"?<br> </pre>
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<pre>I could crush a FUD man. Sorry, PR man.<br><br> </pre>
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Err, excuse me but the article does mention Linux.<br>
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David Reed<br>
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http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br>Does not make a lot of difference, Microsoft will never be able to do it on the terms that are needed for the $100 (or less) laptop.<br><br>
If NT can be made to work on limited hardware just why does it not do that already? If they can make the necessary changes to NT then let them, <br><br>If you read they are trying to push up the specs which can only mean that the Linux version will still be cheaper.
<br><br>Anyway it will never be Free as in Speech. Which is actually more important.<br><br>Peter Childs <br>