[KLUG Members] RE: Lindows at Walmart

[Randall Perry]

I am wondering if there wasn't a conpiracy to choose Lindows as the
linux flavor to use.  It does not have a wide user/developer base like
the major distros.  And the way Lindows licenses the OS is a black-eye
to open source.  Did Microsoft have a hand in this?  Whether you like it
or not, these low-end machines with a low-end Linux flavor are
representing Linux/OpenSource/Windows alternatives.  The typical Walmart
customer is not very tech savy.  "Yup, I had me one of them Line-ux
boxen.  Piece of junk.  But once I got me Windows computer I was
'hackin' away."  

The only thing worse would have been to have emachines use only Linux or
FreeBSD.  Then Microsoft could point to all of the customer complaints
and say "this is what happens when you use Linux".  They will also use
the same argument when analyzing the botched Lindows license.  Or about
how Lindows just tries to sound like windows just like Linux "copied
Windows features".  Folks, these comments may not be valid, but they are
being made by the brainwashed/braindead/PC "expurts" (the ones that
actually interface with consumers like BestBuy salepeople and RentWay).

I don't think Wal*mart is doing a credit to Linux.  Nice attempt, but it
may backfire.

Randall Perry
www.domain-logic.com





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