I agree with you 100%. In fact thats why I bought an IBM Thinkpad to support
the Linux community by throwing money at IBM to show that there are good
reasons "$" for them to continue to support Linux and hopefully in turn they
would give Linux a 'corporate face'.
I just wanted to inform people out there who may be thinking of buying an
preinstalled Caldera IBM thinkpad product, that they although advertised, do
not ship a true 56K modem instead they ship with the dreaded 'winmodem'.
Although I have got it to work, it is totally, unstable. I am in the process
of trying to get them to replace the 'soft' modem with a 'hard' one,
however, it seems this will not be an easy task.
CM
----- Original Message -----
From: "rpjday" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 5:41 AM
Subject: ibm's (alleged) commitment to linux
>
> a couple of recent articles at www.linuxtoday.com have got me to
> wondering about ibm's apparently schizophrenic support of linux.
>
> as most of us know, ibm has pledged over a billion dollars
> recently for linux support and development, and a very recent
> article talks about the upcoming release of ibm's AIX 5L operating
> system, the 'L' standing for linux. gosh, it certainly seems that
> ibm is standing behind linux.
>
> on the other hand, an earlier article describes one chap's attempt
> to buy an ibm thinkpad, only to find that, for the most part, ibm
> is still soaking the consumer for the despised "microsoft tax".
>
> if you check out information on ibm's website, almost every possible
> configuration for sale comes pre-loaded with (you guessed it) some
> microsoft OS, be it ME or windows 2000. the only non-ms version
> comes with a version of caldera's open linux and is astonishingly
> the same price as for a win2k box of the same model, and $100 more
> than a win me box. there is apparently no option to buy a bare
> thinkpad, so someone who wants to run red hat is still paying for
> an OS they don't want.
>
> to add insult to injury, plastered all over ibm's pages is the
> grating slogan, "ibm recommends windows 2000 professional for
> business."
>
> if ibm really wants to show its support for linux, i suggest the
> first thing they do is stop soaking us for an OS we don't want and
> give us the opportunity to buy an empty system. now *that* would
> show me they're serious about linux.
>
> anyone from ibm care to comment?
>
> rday
>
> --
> Robert P. J. Day
> Eno River Technologies, Durham NC
> Unix, Linux and Open Source training
>
>
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>
>
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