Howdy, On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 20:04 +0000, David Fletcher wrote: > On Monday 13 Feb 2006 19:39, Temlakos wrote: > > > > > > And if you /don't want/ MS Windows, you're still stuck with paying for > > it. > > Not necessarily. Look at this page:- > > http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/nbsextra.html?NNB-360 OK, but they don't offer alternative OS preinstallation either. Also, if ordering from the U.S. (if it is even possible), I'd imagine it would be cheaper/less expensive to buy locally with XP preinstalled :-( > > pre-installed OS. MS got wise to that and amended their EULA so that > > such returns were essentially at the discretion of the vendor--and then > > the vendors refused to honor returns of the OS. And these days, Dell > > ships computers /without/ any MS installation disks, so that there's > > nothing physical to return! (That, and you couldn't load Windows on a > > second machine even if in some fit of multimedia mania you wanted to.) > > > > Result: Microsoft sells license after license for its OS, that many > > people will never use. No updates, either. Now where do I, as an > > organizer of corporations and LLC's, go to set up a business model > > whereby I might actually induce people to pay for /nothing at all/? > > > > The only cure for this is going to be for someone to make widely > > available the names of the original manufacturers of laptop computers > > that get a Dell or HP label slapped on them, so that we Linux users can > > go /directly to them/ to buy our machines, and /not a penny/ (or a > > centime, or a pfennig, or a drachma, or a kopeck, or a yen, or whatever) > > will go to Microsoft for software and updates that we will not use. > > > > Temlakos > > -- > Registered Linux user number 393408 > > I use and recommend the email service at 1 & 1 > For domain registration, email and web hosting please visit: > http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/init?k_id=6389763 >
