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"Indeed, we enthusiastically buy their hardware and port our systems to it.""Indeed, we enthusiastically buy their hardware and port our systems to it."Posted Aug 29, 2012 0:04 UTC (Wed) by apoelstra (subscriber, #75205)In reply to: "Indeed, we enthusiastically buy their hardware and port our systems to it." by rillian Parent article: Look and feel lawsuits, the second time around
>I've not found a way to buy a thinkpad without also buying a proprietary operating system from Microsoft. How is that more supportive of Free Software goals?
Microsoft subsidizes Lenovo in exchange for shipping Windows on every machine, so by buying a thinkpad you are sending only ~$40 to MS (which you can get back, I hear, if you're really offended by it). I bought my thinkpad back when Vista was the rage, so I grabbed Vista Basic, and probably gave even less.
So, it's not very good, but it's 20 or 30 times less than what you'd pay Apple if you bought one of their computers. Certainly, Microsoft could not run a business if these OEM sales were their only revenue.
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"Indeed, we enthusiastically buy their hardware and port our systems to it." Posted Aug 29, 2012 12:56 UTC (Wed) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784) [Link]
Lenovo models are quite popular amongst vendors/resellers offering other operating systems pre-installed. I have the impression that this is because the resellers have access to the distribution chain, and maybe they can then get the systems before the Microsoft bundling is applied.
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