The Driver's Room

Commentary about Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority from the inside.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

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• On Michael Dell contending there are too many Linux's:

  There's too much choice of beer too. There needs to only be a couple of brands of beer available when I go to the store -- too confusing for the big store chains to sell so many different varieties.

  I think they should stick to Fosters -- even here in the US. Easy to remember, easy to stock. It would eliminate a bunch of shelf-space that the store could devote to more important things, like snack-crackers and cheese-spread.

  Of course, there's too many varieties of those too...

  --Response to Michael Dell's public remarks about the number of Linux distributions available From Lxer.com