El Reg seems fond of paranoid bullshit, these days
I detected more the Register's trend these days of being more focused on puerile attacks than accurate facts, so I thought I'd check this out.
Go to the home page, dell.co.uk. Click on home desktops (or laptops). Click on the "open source PCs" category. Configure, and even purchase, your Ubuntu PC in sterling.
How can anyone find that confusing?
"At every opportunity it reminds potential customers that open source is NOT Microsoft."
Every opportunity?! It happened once in the entire process, right at the start. If you think it's unreasonable to check that a random punter understands he's not buying a PC just like 95% of the other ones they've ever encountered, you're no more cut out to run a business than you appear to be suited to journalism.
If there's any truth to that article (I didn't bother calling customer support), it's buried under the general incompetence of the rest of it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
