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[Tom Boucher <trekkie AT nomorestars.com>]

On Apr 5, 2004, at 11:32 PM, Alan MacHett wrote:

> http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/04/01/wal.mart.linux.ap/ 
> index.html
> > Wal-Mart offering PCs running Sun's Linux software
> > Thursday, April 1, 2004 Posted: 1646 GMT (0046 HKT)
> >
> > SAN JOSE, California (AP) -- In an invasion of Microsoft Corp.'s home
> > turf, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s version of Linux operating system is now
> > available on inexpensive personal computers sold at Wal-Mart's online
> > store.
>
> Linux for the masses.  As much as I hate WalMart, if they can put Linux
> into the average (which is not to say middle class) household, then  
> kudos
> to them.

I'm really torn on this.  We have the 'evil empire' of retail selling  
something that is based on technology from a company that 'settled'  
with the other evil empire of computing and if McNeely and Ballmer  
shaking hands wasn't signs of the antichrist, not sure what else could  
be.

I honestly think that these Linux desktops at wal-mart are already the  
way of the 'clean' to buy cheap computers without the MS tax.   Not  
that I've spent time in a Wal-Mart electronics department to see if  
regular folk are buying the things or if it's just a bunch of  
out-of-place 'No I will not fix your computer' t-shirt wearing pasty  
white folk :D