Kevin wrote: > On 6/5/06 9:26 AM, "Jason Hayes" wrote: > >> Here's where you can reach them - http://www.lenovo.com/contact/us/en/ >> > > I went here: > > > > ...and typed this: > > ---[SNIP]--- > Since Lenovo has announced that it will not offer or support GNU/Linux on > it's standard or custom-order products, I will no longer purchase these > products. I will also share my concern with the thousands of I.T. > Professionals I interact with daily who participate in the Free and Open > Source Software (F/OSS) community, including GNU/Linux users, developers, > consultants, administrators, as well as I.T. executives and decision makers. > > I understand that Lenovo's primary focus is on the large enterprise user. I > also work with several large enterprise customers, some of which make > subcomponents of your products or the networks that connect them. You > should be aware that many of them are doing their product development and > testing with GNU/Linux and other F/OSS platforms and tools including most > processor and ASIC development. These large-scale high-tech companies > represent a very large part of the Enterprise market you are potentially > abandoning with this policy mistake. > > I hope that Lenovo will reconsider this short-sighted decision and embrace a > more inclusive policy for it's customers, but until then, Lenovo's excellent > products will be largely abandoned by the Open Source trend that is clearly > gaining momentum in the I.T. industry worldwide. > ---[SNIP]--- > > Hopefully, many others will do something similar. > > ...Kevin > Heh... Looks like Kevin changed their minds. ;-) http://news.com.com/Lenovo+denies+ditching+Linux/2100-1003_3-6080115.html