From: Erle Pereira erle@erlepereira.com
Acers Laptop Ad in Times of India (today: 9th May '05), page 15.the "fine print"
"the Linux that is loaded is a free version and would have limited functionality until another operating system is installed"
Acer sucks anyway. Don't buy acer. They are cheap chinese goods with "Acer" stickers....
this is really stupid!... can anything be done to educate the acer guys? this doesn't make any sense. It is extremely misleading. What "Missing / defunct " functionality are they talking about? I think it will take us very little time to get *fully* functional *free* *Linux* working on that laptop that they can give out. anyone has any contact with acer?
Fine print and advertising have always "misled" people ;). This time its no different.
Free software doest work like proprietary stuff which revels in *limited" functionality.
Ads like these are _extremely misleading, damaging and do more to confuse people about GNU / FSF than anything else. more M$ fud ?
With GNU/Linux in it's current state, its not as "fool" proof as M$ Windows. So I would expect "fools"...ahem...i mean users to shy away from GNU OSes ;)
Regards, Dinesh.
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