In an interview with IDG News Service staff Friedman said that when buying netbook consumers are generally not interested in what software platform is installed on the device. According to Friedman, computers are becoming such a class, primarily to work with online services through a browser, not for editing Microsoft Office. And so users could abandon Windows.
Technical director Novell believes that the installation of Linux on low-cost laptop computers more profitable than installing Windows.

First, Linux avoids the cost of licensing software. A second, less demanding Linux platform to hardware resources, in particular, compared with Windows, it takes up less space on your drive.

Given that netbooksi often replace the hard drive is installed flash memory capacity to several gigabytes, saving space on your drive may not be the last importance.

The operating system Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 already installed on netbook Wind development of Micro-Star International (MSI). In addition, Novell is negotiating the supply of the software platform netbooks companies Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo.

But Friedman's statements at variance with the results of several studies of MSI, which showed that netbooks with Linux back in the stores are four times more likely than similar to Windows XP. After acquiring low-cost laptop with Linux users understand that not familiar with this operating system, and, not wishing to spend time training, returned to buy back, said MSI.