Kevin wrote:
> On 6/5/06 9:26 AM, "Jason Hayes" <hh@hayz.ws> wrote:
>
>> Here's where you can reach them - http://www.lenovo.com/contact/us/en/
>>
>
> I went here:
>
> <http://www.lenovo.com/scripts/contact/contact3/us/en>
>
> ...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
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