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OEM distributions...OEM distributions...Posted Dec 2, 2008 20:50 UTC (Tue) by eru (subscriber, #2753)In reply to: OEM distributions... by smoogen Parent article: Losses at Mandriva Every OEM wants to have something that makes it different from the others.. to stand out, get more sales.. so they see the Linux distributions as being something that will make them stand out. If everyone shipped Red Hat, SuSE, Ubuntu or Mandriva.. then none of them would stand out as a 'different' buy. On the other hand, these same companies also ship systems preloaded with Windows, which makes them equally similar buys, modulo some small customizations in utilities, logos and the selection of bundled apps (all of which obviously could also be done within a standard Linux distribution). So I'm not sure this is the explanation.
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