[ Thanks to SeanParsons for this link.
]
“Linux is more secure, more stable, and less costly then
competing proprietary offerings so why is it so hard to buy and
sell systems with GNU/Linux preinstalled? This is a question that I
and many other like minded individuals have been considering for
awhile now and after you get past all the hype, you’ll see that the
primary opposition is hype (or more accurately marketing).“Large scale marketing campaigns are traditionally only possible
for large corporations, so in the realm of desktop operating
systems, this translates into Microsoft and Apple which spend
millions of dollars annually on marketing. The challenge is that no
one owns GNU/Linux (not even RMS or Torvalds would try to make such
a bold claim), so how do we create a marketing campaign of our
own…?”