Following a recent discussion about Microsoft and Open Software, after a few quick searches, I found a handful of PC manufacturers who don’t consent to/follow/comply with Windows OEM’s draconian distribution system on the machines they sell.

Good for them!

Here come the links:

  1. Dell: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/314124_dellfolo03.html
  2. Lenovo: https://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2003996,00.asp
  3. Acer: https://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/07/list-of-companies-selling-computers.html
  4. Apple: https://www.apple.com/macosx/
  5. Sun: https://www.sun.com/desktop/index.jsp
  6. IBM: https://www-304.ibm.com/jct01004c/systems/support/opsystems.html
  7. A list: https://lxer.com/module/db/index.php?dbn=14
  8. Another list: https://www.linux.org/vendor/system/index.html

Some folks at Redmond should start worrying about their retirement if they’ve got more than 10 years left before it. Trends are trends… just saying.

Ciao, stronk7 🙂