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Make the US Federal Aviation Administration's requested Linux / Google Office system available to home users.

100 points posted to Linux, Sales Strategies, Software by jmxz 03/07/07

The US Federal Aviation Administration requested information about a Linux/Google Office configuration from Dell.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197800480

"Bowen [FAA's CIO] said he's in talks with the aviation safety agency's main hardware supplier, Dell Computer, to determine if it could deliver Linux-based computers capable of accessing Google Apps through a non-Microsoft browser once the FAA's XP-based computers pass their shelf life. "We have discussions going on with Dell," Bowen said. "We're trying to figure out what our roadmap will be after we're no longer able to acquire Windows XP.""

This sounds exactly like the kind of computer I'd like at home.

Please make this system available in your Home section and not just the government sales section.

This is not a dup of the other Linux requests - because it should be even easier for Dell -- rather than configuring a new model, just sell one you're already probably working on anyway to home users.

steveoc
03/07/07		 Alternatively .. Just repeat the mantra 'Linux is a niche market for hobbyists only' ... 'There is no demand for Linux' ... 'There is no money in open source' ...... and give the FAA business to HP instead.
reg
03/26/07		 Something just like it, but the FAA might want to keep some software to itself, national security wise, know what I mean?

Otherwise, I'm all for it.
 
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