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Dell and Ubuntu: It’s All About the Bucks

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Sam Varghese
May 5, 2007

“Call me cynical but the decision that Dell has taken–to offer
Ubuntu installed on some of its PCs and laptops–is driven by just
one thing–money. Or at least the hope of making money.

“Let’s remember that Dell did this Linux thing once before–it
went big on Red Hat in the year 2000, offering the distribution on
a similar number of machines, and then promptly quit doing so a
year later. Reason? The accountants weren’t happy…”

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