Editor's Note: Linux, FOSS, and the Time-Honored Tradition of Ch...

Courtesy Linux Today  Fri, 07/10/2009 - 17:04

And that is how netbooks went from inexpensive, inventive, and endlessly flexible, to restricted, micro-managed, over-priced, over-sized, and under-featured.

Sure, you still get the traditional fluffy padding-- in the form of useless trialware, nagware, and junkware.

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