Comments on: Dell, Please Fix Your Ads… and Your Web Site http://techrights.org/2008/10/31/dell-oopsie-part-deux/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Luc Bollen http://techrights.org/2008/10/31/dell-oopsie-part-deux/comment-page-1/#comment-31768 Luc Bollen Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:55:52 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/10/31/dell-oopsie-part-deux/#comment-31768 "it’s shown that Dell’s paper advertisements for GNU/Linux-based sub-notebooks are ‘decorated’ with a prominent reminder that Dell recommends Windows. What’s that about?" I think it is simply because Dell is so much used to sell Microsoft OS'es that it is part of their boilerplate layouts. See this description of the Ubuntu Dell Inspiron Mini 9 on the French Dell site: http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-inspiron-9?c=fr&l=fr&s=dhs&cs=frdhs1 It says: "Système d'exploitation Microsoft Ubuntu 8.04" “it’s shown that Dell’s paper advertisements for GNU/Linux-based sub-notebooks are ‘decorated’ with a prominent reminder that Dell recommends Windows. What’s that about?”

I think it is simply because Dell is so much used to sell Microsoft OS’es that it is part of their boilerplate layouts. See this description of the Ubuntu Dell Inspiron Mini 9 on the French Dell site:
http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-inspiron-9?c=fr&l=fr&s=dhs&cs=frdhs1

It says:
“Système d’exploitation Microsoft
Ubuntu 8.04″

]]> By: xISO_ZWT http://techrights.org/2008/10/31/dell-oopsie-part-deux/comment-page-1/#comment-31442 xISO_ZWT Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:30:49 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/10/31/dell-oopsie-part-deux/#comment-31442 That observance was brought up in one of the past comments in BN a while back (I think he/she also mentioned lenovo). May be incorrect (could be the var guy) but lately been reading a lot. If would benefit the site to show the ubuntu logo if it's shows the windows logo. Else, be OS logo agnostic, but it would be nice to see Tux appear on the sight That observance was brought up in one of the past comments in BN a while back (I think he/she also mentioned lenovo). May be incorrect (could be the var guy) but lately been reading a lot.

If would benefit the site to show the ubuntu logo if it’s shows the windows logo. Else, be OS logo agnostic, but it would be nice to see Tux appear on the sight

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