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7 wrote:
> Should Motherboard makers bundle Linux CD with every shipment?
> 
> They can use a DVD with DSL, Puppy Linux, System Rescue CD,
> GParted, Ubuntu and a few other distros that boot and run from LiveCD.
> The bigger distros should have bare minimum such as Open Office,
> Games like Torcs, Nexuiz etc, education stuff like xmaxima, Rasmol,
> CAD like QCad, K-3D, Gimp for photos, Seamonkey to create
> and maintain websites, GAMBAS2 and gcc for writing software,
> and K3b for burning CDs.
> 
> Its all free and downloadable any way.
> http://www.livecdlist.com
> http://www.distrowatch.com
> 
> At a cost of 10p, it not only boosts system builders to diagnose PCs
> but also helps all the punters avoid installing boot leg copies
> of proprietory software and reduce piracy.
> 
> May be the small companies and system builders should bundle the 
> CD themselves. It costs 10p or thereabouts, but bound to generate
> a lot of interest - especially helping students for example
> choose one motherboard over another, and from one vendor from
> another for the freebees that are enclosed.
> 

it would appear that doing so would be a violation of the linux 
distributions released under the gnu agreement that stipulate there 
should be no charge for such releases.
I say this b/c mobo mfg.s would be tempted to raise prices for their 
"value-added" boards with an active o/s built in.
I understand that some products are currently being built with certain 
linux distributions in mind as "embedded systems", but i question the 
legitimacy for charging extra for a free o/s which may or may not have 
proprietary code in a specific release to work better with specific 
hardware, and/or designed not to run that release on other hardware.
it appears on the surface that this is in contravention to the whole 
concept of linux.