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		SwellJoe on June 4, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CrunchPad Prototype Dell are bought by "The general public", who often don't know how to clean the crap off. So some of it sticks, and they make money. This assumes Dell isn't paid just for the privilege of being on their desktop. I kinda think they are.

axod on June 4, 2009 [–]

That's a measurable though. If Crunchpad was paid to have something on it, then they measured that no one actually left it on there, they would probably stop paying pretty quickly.

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