<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 13/05/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:linuxaus.1.tracyanne@spamgourmet.com">linuxaus.1.tracyanne@spamgourmet.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:linuxaus.1.tracyanne@spamgourmet.com">
linuxaus.1.tracyanne@spamgourmet.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;">Tux500 Why is this important?<br><br>
DELL will soon be offering Linux preinstalled on DELL computers, but<br>this offer will only be to US customers, NOT Australian customers.<br><br>What will it take to get DELL to make that same offer to Australian<br>customers?
<br><br>What it will take for DELL to make that offer is for the offering of<br>Linux on DELL computers in the US to be a sales success (whatever that<br>is to DELL).</blockquote><div><br><br>So spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to have a tiny decal on a minor car in a minor sport in the US.... is going to make Dell (note correct capitalisation) ship linux (don't care about that capitalisation, plus, I need to leave something for you to nitpick about) on laptops in Australia, and I (as someone who has only ever bought Apple hardware, and probably only ever will buy Apple hardware), am meant to care about this?
<br><br>You've risen to new heights of lunacy.<br><br>Could you explain to me how your insane idea is going to give more value to the Australian F/OSS community in general, and Linux Aus in particular, than directing $300k in the direction of something like Software Freedom Day, or even to Linux Aus itself?
<br></div><br></div><br>-- <br>There is nothing more worthy of contempt than a man who quotes himself - Zhasper, 2004