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Wired: Linux Retailing Takes Gnu Twist

Written By
AP
Andy Patrizio
Nov 22, 2000

“A Massachusetts PC reseller is going co-op in an effort to
boost open-source development.”

“Spindletop System Dynamics of Cambridge, Massachusetts, will
only sell computers and peripherals that it rates the best
supporters of Linux and FreeBSD, an older Unix-based operating
system.”

Spindletop, which has been selling hardware for less than a
year, has two goals: take away revenue from vendors that do not
support Linux as well as they do Windows, and offer open-source
friendly companies a collective body of customers.

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Andy Patrizio

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