Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > So, how do you explain other companies selling netbooks with Linux? They > don't know what they are doing? > It's a marketing/business decision. If the company feels there's sufficient market to support the extra hassles of inventory management of Linux units, and it makes business sense, .... For all I know, MS and Nokia may have negotiated getting an extra break on an MS OS netbook line if MS has an exclusive OS arrangement for Nokia netbooks... These sorts of arrangements allow both companies to develop and market this netbook project without fear of confusing the market with incompatible units. I suppose it's possible MS and Nokia may be looking at offering something like ATT is offering with a netbook with cell phone internet built in and bundling it with some cell phone service... Stuff that's technically possible with an of a variety of Linux distros, but there's no Linux marketing agent to sit down at the table with Nokia and some cell provider to cut a deal. Free Linux OSs are great, but they offer little to no marketing advantage in these sorts of situations. I'm not sure what your big deal is. This weekend I got fed up with Windows 7 on one of my build-boxes and overwrote the entire HD with Ubuntu. It's a dead simple download and install process. Or just buy one of the other netbooks that comes with Linux. It's not like they are cheaper with Linux... For all I know, your Linux netbook might have ubuntu 8 and you'll soon decide to download and install a Ubuntu 9... _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
