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Free Software Foundation Urges Computer Makers To Replace Windows Vista With Free OS | |
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| Time: 20:56 EST/01:56 GMT | News Source: InformationWeek | Posted By: Andre Da Costa | ||
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he Free Software Foundation, taking advantage of what it says is the rejection of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, is urging major computer hardware manufacturers to offer consumers computers without any operating system or with a free GNU/Linux OS. "We see Microsoft Vista as being a failure," said Peter Brown, FSF executive director, in an interview Friday. "People aren't buying new hardware because of Vista." Brown says five proposals designed to encourage hardware manufacturers to work with the free software community were sent to Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell for comment in January. | ||
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| #1 By 32132 (64.180.219.241) at 3/2/2007 9:36:26 PM |
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The FSF is a total failure. Despite all the hype, sales of servers with Linux on them actually declined in the last quarter.
"Linux server shipments actually declined by 0.8 percent in the quarter, according to IDC" "Windows server sales grew by 9.4 percent to $5.3 billion, on unit shipment growth of 5.1 percent. Clearly, companies are deploying bigger and more expensive Windows boxes. But Unix is not far behind, with sales up 2.8 percent to $5.1 billion in the fourth quarter of 2006." http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn022707-story01.html |
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