[ Thanks to sjvn for this
link. ]
“‘People are always asking us to support Linux on the desktop,
but the question is: ‘Which Linux are you talking about?’,’ Dell
asked.“‘If we say we like Ubuntu, then people will say we picked the
wrong one. If we say we like and support Ubuntu, Novell, Red Hat,
and Xandros, then someone would ask us, ‘Why don’t you support
Mandriva? The challenge we have with picking one is that we think
we’d disenchant the other distributions’ supporters…'”
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