Buy! Buy! Buy! - into Openness

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Apr 3, 2007 4:07 PM EDT
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One of the core problems for open source has always been that as a radical force outside the mainstream it is hard for its supporters to influence conventional players there. In part, this was what made Dell'sIdeastorm so important: it gave a voice to those hitherto unable to communicate usefully with the company. The effects have been dramatic, with Dell nowpromising to sell systems with pre-installed GNU/Linux. The question then must be, how can we build on that success to achieve maximum impact?

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In my opinion DELL's Linux strategy is self defeating tracyanne 1 1,371 Apr 3, 2007 10:03 PM

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