Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 10:06:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
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       William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
       Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario
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On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Brian Gerst wrote:

> The problem with this statement is that Linux users are a drop in the 
> bucket of sales for this hardware.  Boycotting doesn't cost the vendors 
> enough to make them care.

Profit margins in the hardware world are small enough that
1% of the users can have a significant influence...

> And this does nothing for people who are converting over to
> Linux, and didn't buy hardware with that consideration in mind.

Not in the short term, no.  But in the long term it may
make a difference.

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