[ale] better give up on those thinkpads for Linux...

[Mills, John M.]

Ben -

Naturally, you're right. I just wasn't thinking from that angle - even
makes sense for Lenovo like that.

 - Mills 

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Mills, John M. wrote:
> Right. So ... Just how should an OEM provide Lenovo with "licenses for
> Linux" to authorize their ordering a pre-installed configuration?

I suspect they're talking about e.g. licenses from Red Hat or SUSE, etc.

Note from the article that "Lenovo actually plans to support Linux on
its
ThinkPads starting in the third quarter, in partnership with Novell".
These
are business management types who don't think in terms of downloading a
distribution from the net and installing it, they think in terms of
buying it
from the distributor.

Also note that their primary customers are businesses like resellers.
The
reseller would make a deal with Novell or Red Hat or whoever for selling
computers with the appropriate distribution installed, let Lenovo know
that
they have that deal, and Lenovo would then provide PCs with that
distribution
install.

Ben