[SATLUG] Dell's ideaStorm

[Vern Davis]

On 3/6/07, Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/6/07, Dean McCall <dean.mccall at nvision2020.com> wrote:
> > Has anyone else checked this out?  Pretty cool idea Dell had which might
> > actually help save them...granted they have to actually implement these
> > ideas.  What's interesting to note is that the most popular suggestions
> > for products involve Linux;)
> >
> > http://www.dellideastorm.com/
>
> See recent posts on slashdot and other sites about how Dell is
> (mis)handling this.  Thousands of people flooded the Idea Storm
> website with requests for pre-installed Linux on desktop and notebook
> machines, and at first Dell indicated they might do it, but then they
> backed out and said it would be a really long time before any vendors
> were certified, etc. etc.
>
> http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/06/1834248
> --


Do I detect the meretricious hand of Microsoft at work?

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