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Engadget tells this story better than I could:

"RBC Royal Bank is offering a free ASUS Eee PC when you switch to their checking account service. That's right, you get an actual computer after completing the move (and dealing with a lot of red tape). Sure, it's only the 7-inch, 2GB version, but it still runs Xandros way better than this solar calculator we got from our bank."

This is a digital tipping point for GNU Linux because it takes Linux places that Microsoft Windows simply can't go -- truly free (as in free beer) merchandise distribution. And that is where Free Open Source Software and Linux are establishing a beach-head, in the most price sensitive markets. Who says that a computer has to cost thousands of dollars? It doesn't! And who says that a computer has to do all the things that a top-end Mac does? It doesn't. What we have thought of as a computer up to this point -- one device does it all -- will change as Free Open Source Software commoditizes the desktop computer market.

Also, the mere fact that this story made Engadget is a digital tipping point, because Engadget has a huge mainstream readership of gadget hounds, so this story is like $20,000 USD of free advertising for the EEE PC.