Compaq/France to support Linux?

Stephane Arguin writes "The french site "Les Nouvelles neuves de Linux" say that Compaq France will support Linux on all their Intel and Alpha machine by the year 2000..." Mind you the page is in French, so for all I can tell they might be talking about anything. Update There is a quick translation attached now.

[e-mail] Jeff has translated the blurb above into something less French for the rest of us. He writes "According to Jon Hall, Executive Director of Linux International, Compaq for whom he works, will soon support Linux on all platforms it proposes, Intel and Alpha. Installation of Linux will not be done by Compaq so that no distribution is favored more than another. Instead the installation will be done by resellers or VARs. This Decision was announced yesterday at DECUS. Other computer manufacturers are exptected to announce similar decisions soon. "