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Tony Woodridge-Bessel wrote:

> On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:54:59 GMT 7
> website_has_email@www.enemygadgets.com wrote in
> news:TxHbk.21050$E41.1386@text.news.virginmedia.com...
> 
>> Leythos wrote:
>>
>>> In article <dOPak.19614$E41.10901@text.news.virginmedia.com>,
>>> website_has_email@www.enemygadgets.com says...
>>>> Should Motherboard makers bundle Linux CD with every shipment?
>>>>
>>> Waste of time and money, more confusion and trouble for the customer.
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>> WRONG!
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>> Motherboard buyers and system builders are not your average customer.
>> They are smart people and they need those tools to increase productivity.
>> There is nothing worse than a dumb motherboard and components sitting
>> idle on the workbench with customer screaming for their system
>> because some stupid fault only shows itself after spending hours
>> installing OS.
>>
> 
> That's a bit of a moot point though, isn't it?
> If someone wants to use a live CD of some sort then they will.
> If they don't know anything about linux or other live CDs then they would
> just go ahead and install Windows regardless of yet another CD lying about
> in the bottom of the box.

Thats just not as moot as it once was. There are more WINDUMMY Osen viruses,
malware, spyware, trojans, keyloggers, botnetware and spamware released per
day than all of the engineers from micoshaft corporation, its partners and
all the anti-virus companies can write fixes. The Micoshaft platform is
unfixable and unmaintable. IT Admins are being hoodwinked about the reality
of it all into a false sense of security.

Having those CDs around and knowing how to use them by experimenting and
googling for tutorials can save the reputations of thousands of PC engineer
and IT Admins and also recover the data for hundreds of thousands more from
infected PCs. When you can't affort a licensed copy with office, you have
free Linux and Open Office built in with the purchase of the motherboard.
All of a sudden being successful in business is realistic compared to
being peniless donating money to Micoshaft corporation or living under
the threat of piracy raids all day.