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DesktopLinux: Must Linux Buy its Way Onto the Desktop?

[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols
for this link. ]

As you may know, Google is close to making a deal with Dell in
which the search giant will get to preinstall its software package
on Dell PCs. What you may not know is that Google may be spending a
billion dollars over three years for the privilege.

“For cash-rich Google, it’s a cheap price to pay to cut
Microsoft off at the knees by getting pride of place on about 33
percent on all new US desktops…”

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