Walmart.com sells Microtel PC with SuSE Linux software

Steven W. Orr steveo at syslang.net
Tue Jul 15 08:54:09 EDT 2003


On Tuesday, Jul 15th 2003 at 08:41 -0400, quoth Andrew W. Gaunt:

=>
=>I'm no big fan of Walmart, however, I'm not so sure the state of
=>Vermont is necessarily doing wha the residents really want. We
=>go camping in Northern NH frequently and on occasion stop
=>at the Walmart in Littleton NH. I can't help but notice the
=>disproportionately large number of Vermont license plates in the
=>parking lot. Again, I view Walmart as just another purveryor
=>of rampant cut-throat consumerism, but, who's driving it?
=>
=>It's good to see them pushing linux boxes. We know that
=>altruism is not the impetus. It sort of proves that linux must
=>be a marketable item on a large scale.
=>
=>Thomas M. Albright wrote:
=>
=>>On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Andrew W. Gaunt wrote:
=>>
=>>  
=>>
=>>>Perhaps Walmart will sue SCO into oblivion and clear up
=>>>the mess being made.  They've got the financial resources
=>>>to do it.
=>>>
=>>>    
=>>>
=>>Excpet that WalMart is a worse monster than SCO. SCO sues individual 
=>>companies. WalMart sued the state of Vermont when the state said no to 
=>>the giant moving in.
=>>
=>>They're not the "Caring, Community Store" they want you to belive, any 
=>>more than SCO is UNIX.

This is clearly not a linux question but I'm still curious nonetheless.

I know that Walmart is capable of wiping out lots of small businesses 
almost overnight, but without sounding like a cold cruel unfeeling 
Republican, what's wrong with that? The free enterprise system is at play 
here. What right did the State of VT have to try to block them in the 
first place? I understand that the Planning Board of a municipality may 
have objections from a local regs perspective. Other than that, I just 
don't get it.

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