You may have heard of or seen Dell’s IdeaStorm site, where they are actively soliciting user input, suggestions, and ideas.
It turns out the most popular suggestion, by far, is for Linux or other Open Source software to be pre-loaded, whether by default or as an option. In fact, the top few suggestions (as of this writing) can be boiled down to:
- Make (brand X) Linux an OS option
- Pre-install OpenOffice
- Make No OS an option
- Pre-install Firefox
- Make NO extra software an option
Bryan Richard at Linux magazine has an article about why he thinks Dell will choose to ignore these overwhelming requests.
He makes a good point — the only problem is, having initiated this site to allow customers and users to offer ideas, the whole exercise will be pointless if they proceed to ignore the most popular suggestions they receive.
So, are they going to listen? Or even make an effort to appear as though they’re listening? That’s the interesting question; what do you think?
