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No Windows Emulation Bundled with Dell Ubuntu PCs

by Mike Abundo on May 6th, 2007

In yet another slap to Microsoft’s face, Dell won’t even include Windows emulation in Ubuntu machines.

Dell will not include open-source software such as Wine, which lets users run Windows programs on Linux, with the PCs it plans to bundle with Ubuntu Linux, Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu and its commercial sponsor Canonical, said May 3.

“I do not want to position Ubuntu and Linux as a cheap alternative to Windows,” Shuttleworth said in an interview with eWEEK following the May 1 announcement that Dell plans to preload Ubuntu on some consumer machines.

“While Linux is an alternative to Windows, it is not cheap Windows. Linux has its own strengths, and users should want it because of those strengths and not because it’s a cheap copy of Windows,” he said.

Ouch, Bill. They don’t even want to emulate your shit.

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