“… right now in operating systems. There is a lot of interest
among computer users in being able to buy computers from a major PC
manufacturer that have Linux or another operating system other than
Windows pre-installed.
“No major computer manufacturers will sell a computer to a
regular consumer with Linux pre-installed despite the fact that
there’s maybe 7 to 10 [million] people right now that are using
Linux and it’s growing every day. Part of the reason for that is
because, as the equipment manufacturers have indicated, they do not
want to alienate Microsoft and suffer by getting second-rate
licensing deals on their word processors and on their operating
systems for the majority of the market that still is locked into
Microsoft….”