“Dell Inc. sells a lot of computers. Some even have Linux on
them. But it won’t do for its Linux users what it does for its
Microsoft Windows customers–fully support them across a complete
line of Dell PCs. That’s because, according to Michael Dell
himself, there are too many flavors of Linux out there. Which
should the company support? If it gets behind Ubuntu, for instance,
rabid Xandros fans might be up in arms.“The law of unintended (or maybe intended?) consequences applies
in spades to open-source operating systems. Open source drives
innovation and choice, but too much choice drives enterprises back
into the arms of what they know best–namely Windows…”