Dell Computers is putting out a digg-style clarion call for ideas on how to improve their business. Of the top ten requests, all but the eighth-place request involve either open source software and operating systems (Linux, Firefox, Open Office), or clean OS installs, or OS-free computers (for do-it-yourselfer types), or having tech help call centers in America.
And going to the second-tier of requests, I see requests for dual-booting Linux and Windows systems right out of the box, and a request to keep Windows XP offerings extant, a relatively non-abusive, non-restrictive and non-invasive Windows version compared to Vista. I also see a request for Dell to get Apple to sell licenses for preinstalling Mac OS X to itself; trouble is, Apple would never do that, because they need to marry their OS to their brand of hardware to sell both simultaneously, in order turn a profit on anything they do that’s not called iPod.
These results are the next best thing to this blogmeister actually having clicked a million diggs on his own.
