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HP: Debian Cha Ching!
by Dolores Parker Feb 23rd 2007 at 12:00PM
And you thought HP was squeezing all the money it could from your poor wallet when you purchase its ink replacement cartridges. Well apparently, there's lots of profit margin in offering support services for Debian, one of the top ten most popular (entirely free) open source distributions, and the basis for the exceedingly popular Ubuntu. HP reported $25 million in sales in its European, Middle East and Asia market segment in 2006 as a direct result of its Debian support. Cha-Ching! That's no pocket change and even exceeds HP's own forecast.
Clearly, there are alternatives to commercial distributions and companies who tool up to support them can add a nice, fat profit to their bottom line.
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Gardiner Westbound said 12:13PM on 2-23-2007
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I hope somebody at Dell sees this.
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