That's the most uninteresting of things he said. The real value of the article were his thoughts on hardware vs software cost. Every hardware manufacturer must

That's the most uninteresting of things he said. The real value of the article were his thoughts on hardware vs software cost. Every hardware manufacturer must LOVE Linux for its own sake. And not just Asians, I would add. Ultimately, if DELL wants to make more money off each PC, they should switch to Linux. And now just vanilla distro, but their own unique flavor, with their own open source drivers for some unique hardware, similar to Apple's multi-touch. Right now that extra "software money" allowed per-PC is spent on Microsoft licenses. Software is the king. Our startup (hardware + software) recently got acquired precisely because of our small software team - the other 80% of the company (hardware) wasn't of much value to the acquirer.