Seagate ships Lindows OS on Hard drives

THIS WON'T be the first time the phrase "Hard Drive" gives Gates and Ballmer a headache. One of the first books on the Vole that I read and added to my bookshelf is titled "Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the making of the Microsoft Empire". Yes, Empire indeed, and that was back in 1993, what would James Wallace write today!. Needless to say, that book didn't give warm fuzzies to the Vole.

Back to topic, consumer-linux crusaders at LindowsOS announced that spinning disc giant Seagate is now selling a line of hard drives pre-loaded with the evil, viral GNUish, almost-like cancer, menace to capitalism and the free world. In case you're confused: Linux, and of the LindowsOS 4.0 flavor.

The company says that hard disks with LindowsOS will be sold by Seagate at the exact same price as a typical blank hard disc, "Because the LindowsHD hard disc is available for the exact same price as the blank hard disc, the manufacturer is in effect, getting LindowsOS for free" the company said.

This promotion seems to be targetted mostly to OEMs and small PC builders. "55% of the computers sold today are 'white boxes' meaning they don't carry a brand name. The white boxes are typically assembled by small to medium-sized companies. These companies can now use LindowsHD and avoid entering into expensive licensing agreements with software companies.", the company concluded.

I can picture the evil minds in Redmondia inventing ways to have new hard disks formatted by default by the bios the first time they're plugged in, in a "trustworthy computing"/DRM kind of way... don't you?