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On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Brian Gerst wrote: > The problem with this statement is that Linux users are a drop in the > bucket of sales for this hardware. Boycotting doesn't cost the vendors > enough to make them care. Profit margins in the hardware world are small enough that 1% of the users can have a significant influence... > And this does nothing for people who are converting over to > Linux, and didn't buy hardware with that consideration in mind. Not in the short term, no. But in the long term it may make a difference. -- All Rights Reversed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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