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Story: Microsoft to Linux: 'Bring it on'

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Steve (UK) : "The issue here is it's extremely difficult to buy a PC *without* Windows on. If what you want is a Linux machine, then you've paid (an already supremely rich) Microsoft a large amount of money for a licence you're not going to use. "

I am not quite sure what planet you are coming from, but here in America,Walmart(the world's largest retailer by far) has been selling PC's with Lindows (a version of Linux) pre-installed in it for at least 3 years now, and just recently WalMart started selling PC's with Sun's version of Linux desktop pre-installed. In neither case do you end up paying a cent or a penny to Microsoft!
If a tiny company like Lindows can do it and a non-IT firm like WalMart can do it, explain to me how you can claim that HP, the second biggest IT firm on the planet after IBM, cannot sell their own PC's with Linux pre-installed, especially since HP has already announced the availability of Linux desktop PC's in Asia.
Lets not forget that WalMart has also been ib business in the UK for at least 3 years when they bought a big UK retailing group, so your claims and Jeremy Allison's claims simply don't stand up to close scrutiny.
Its pure grandstanding and anti-Microsoft propaganda.

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