It’s Hard to Keep a Good OS Down at Robert Pogson

It has been getting harder to buy a netbook without the M$ tax lately but ACER, who is breathing down Dell’s neck, is selling a full-sized notebook PC for the price of a netbook. That cannot be good for M$. ACER has had huge growth in the face of the economic downturn. The reasons are aggressive sales of netbooks through ISPs, banks, and whomever ACER could enlist. They are passing the field on the curve and will pull away in the straight. ACER has seen that M$ is holding others back.

There are a bunch of reasons newbies will buy a PC with GNU/Linux installed:

price
performance
lack of malware
open standards
software freedom

M$ may be able to FUD about some of these, but when the prices get this low, M$ has nowhere to hide. Dell will have to follow suit. Can the others be far behind?

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.