[Nottingham] Share your operating system bundling tales with the EU

[Simon Osborne]

On 21 April 2011 07:55, Barry Drake <b.drake at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 00:32 +0100, Richard Hodgson wrote:
>> Dell did a few years ago, but I think the option was dropped due to a
>> lack of sales.
>
> Dell still have a range of Ubuntu machines in the USA.  In Europe, they
> offer a laptop and a couple of high end business machines.  They are not
> easy to find on the Dell site though.  Last March, I bought one of the
> last Ubuntu Mini 10v netbooks - I was really annoyed when they withdrew
> it.  Nice little machine.
>
> Regards,                Barry.

Unless I'm missing something, what is the problem here? All Linux
users that I know are perfectly able and capable to install a variant
of Linux onto any PC that came with Windows. Since computers with
Windows installed are subsidised by Microsoft they are cheaper to buy
than the same machine with Ubuntu or no OS installed. So to me it's
perfectly logical to take advantage of Microsoft and buy the cheaper
hardware and replace the OS with Linux.

Simon