Wal-Mart pulls out the gOS bundled Everex computers from retail shops
March 12, 2008 by Clair Ching
Filed under The Free World.
I read on ZDNet that the manufacturer should worry because it affects the image of Linux. The quote that disturbed me was:
“No, it’ll be remembered as a Linux failure, and that’s a shame.”
Hmmm. I think that it doesn’t really have to come to that. Linux wouldn’t be a failure per se because it’s the laptops that didn’t sell. It’s the entire package that could possibly be considered as a failure. For one thing, selling computers with bundled operating systems could be considered as a risk that they took because of the customers’ comfort level with buying …read more
