The first eee was a revolution because of Linux. How could they possibly think this is a good move? Besides the rather beefy cheque I imagine Microsoft has tempted them with... getting scared of the OS market moving away from a monopoly. Damn, I hate Microsoft
Meh, money talks and Linux is a niche. I'm in that niche, of course, so it pains me, but this isn't something new.
I've gotten used to vendors experimenting with Linux and/or open source and then abandoning the idea. Apple and Darwin come to mind, and "evil" Microsoft wasn't even involved in that one.
(Which makes Maemo all the more unprecedented, by the way)...
Complete overreaction. Next to no one purchased an eee for the built in linux distro (Xandros) - it sucked pretty hard. XP is much harder to get installable from a flash drive than most common linux distros, and if you are going to be overwriting Xandros anyways does it really make a difference? The only real issue I see is people being butthurt about having to pay for a 15 dollar XP licence - most of whom are just people who wanted to pirate Windows to save some money. Yes, for those who strive for a life independent of Windows, that does suck a little.
Now if they provided a linux distro worth keeping, it would be a different story...
Meh, money talks and Linux is a niche. I'm in that niche, of course, so it pains me, but this isn't something new.
I've gotten used to vendors experimenting with Linux and/or open source and then abandoning the idea. Apple and Darwin come to mind, and "evil" Microsoft wasn't even involved in that one.
(Which makes Maemo all the more unprecedented, by the way)...
I'm also used to anticompetitive business decisions to mute Linux. Say, for instance, ACPI crippling aimed at Linux in particular (i.w. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869249). Take from that what you will.
Complete overreaction. Next to no one purchased an eee for the built in linux distro (Xandros) - it sucked pretty hard. XP is much harder to get installable from a flash drive than most common linux distros, and if you are going to be overwriting Xandros anyways does it really make a difference? The only real issue I see is people being butthurt about having to pay for a 15 dollar XP licence - most of whom are just people who wanted to pirate Windows to save some money. Yes, for those who strive for a life independent of Windows, that does suck a little.
Now if they provided a linux distro worth keeping, it would be a different story...
Yeah, I bet even Linux addicts didn't keep the original distro on board. I know I haven't. It simply sucked too much. Its easy to blame it on Linux overall though.
