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Hello Tom - 

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TW> Interstingly on the Linspire Web site theri listing of
TW> Compatable Hardware is fairly small. OF course that is why
TW> their push is in Pre Assembled Machines. 

The push for pre-installed Linspire is identical to Windows or
Linux. The typical home computer user hasn't a clue (or a vowel
or the ambition to use them if they had them). 

TW> And in reality that is where the most money will be made. 

No, not really. That was IBM's original mistake in thinking the
money was in PC hardware not software so they gave Bill Gates
carte blanche to sell MSDOS. 

CA>> I really never did feel that UNIX or any clone thereof was
CA>> going to be a great OS for newbies or the 'home market'. A
CA>> glorified XBox or PlaysStation would be better for the
CA>> 'home market' if they added some way to store all the
CA>> pirated music, video, and pr0n they would sell faster than
CA>> ice cubes in Hell. 

TW> They are working on that one. There are Hacks already out
TW> there to use one of those boxes as a computer as I recall. 

Could be a conflict of interest or some such but if SONY ever
wakes up to what a silly computer most home users really want
they could take over the home computer market in no time. ;-) 

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