Its probably just a stupid decision to hard code the Microsoft Operating System tag as they only expected to include those but now Ubuntu is popular and they are supporting it , they have probably forgotten about their hard coded program. Or maybe it is too hard to change the coding until the next revision.
Roy Schestowitz
2009-05-13 12:02:23
Indeed. But that would be as tactless as a restaurant putting beverages under the "Coca Cola drinks:" heading.
Doug
2009-05-13 12:04:07
> Its probably just a stupid decision to hard code the Microsoft Operating System tag
I doubt it's a mistake, given the history of MS and its relentless attempt to totally own mindshare. Similarly with Microsoft 'open source' and them turning up at Open Source conferences to 'explain' what 'open source' should be :)
Google results 1 - 10 of about 385,000 for "microsoft open source"
zelrik
2009-05-13 13:54:15
I think you guys think too hard. It might just be Dell being fucking idiots, which wouldnt surprise me at all. By the way there are much better OEM's for Linux as shown here : http://wiki.club-ubuntu.org/index.php/Category:Linux_Computers
If someone (or someones) calls you paranoid for taking about "beacon"-like functionality, there will be no lack of authoritative citations (e.g. Web links) they can be provided to prove them wrong
At least some people squeezed out some "free press" out of this charade [...] That the media kept boosting parodies as the alternative/s to the bigot is a topic we wrote about a great deal over the past 3 weeks
They say IBM never recovered from Gerstner, who instead of saving the companies (IBM and others he claims credit for) set up a collision course of rapid shrinkage
Comments
Kitkat
2009-05-13 11:53:31
Roy Schestowitz
2009-05-13 12:02:23
Doug
2009-05-13 12:04:07
I doubt it's a mistake, given the history of MS and its relentless attempt to totally own mindshare. Similarly with Microsoft 'open source' and them turning up at Open Source conferences to 'explain' what 'open source' should be :)
Google results 1 - 10 of about 385,000 for "microsoft open source"
zelrik
2009-05-13 13:54:15
Roy Schestowitz
2009-05-13 14:10:35
Gentoo User
2009-05-13 16:23:14
Heh, quite the opposite actually. Obviously.
XfX
2009-05-27 12:40:23