OT: Bundled software (was: Boston Linux Conference December 3-4)

bscott at ntisys.com bscott at ntisys.com
Mon Nov 25 08:36:51 EST 2002


On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, at 12:29am, erikprice at mac.com wrote:
> But I thought that most computers shipped with Acrobat.  I know it's not a
> default application in Windows distributions, but doesn't it come as one
> of the packaged free programs that computer mftr's ship with their boxes
> to pad their feature list?

  Some do.  There is no financial incentive to install it, so many (most?)
don't bother.  Adobe doesn't pay them anything, and the product is free, so
the customers don't, either.  MS Office and MS Works they can charge the
customer for.

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