[nflug] get your money back

[anthonyriga]

People who are buying Dell pcs and others think they
are getting the OS for free anyways because its
preloaded it dosent make any difference to Joe 6
pack.The Linux comminity still needs to compete with
Mac pcs that are more known in peoples minds then
Linux. Look what a medai blitz Mac had just by movings
it arch to intels. While the vendors have mixed
feelings on selling desktops with no OS, they put on a
much more united front when it comes to laptops. 
According to practice, the laptop and the Windows
license are one and the same .The cases where refunds
are issued for Windows in accordance with Microsoft's
stated policy are exceptional. It should be known that
they were required by regulators and add this clause
and both Microsoft and its partners, as a practice,
disregard the clause or misrepresent its meaning
whenever it suits their best interests which is all
the time!




--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:

> Ken Smith wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 11:15 -0500, Cyber Source
> wrote:
> >   
> >> Good point but it wouldn't be that hard.
> >>     
> >
> > No argument.  They just need to see it as worth
> spending effort on
> > (effort costs money, keep in mind how slim the
> margins are in the
> > computer hardware biz).  Some of them already
> have, some haven't.  We
> > have bought servers from both Dell and HP with no
> operating system on
> > them.  I don't think we've tried with laptops
> because even here the
> > majority of people will either run Windows or want
> to dual-boot.
> >
> > All I'm saying is that sometimes the explanation
> of why something is the
> > way it is isn't quite as straightforward as it
> first seems, and in the
> > end boils down to something as simple as the "bean
> > counters" (accountants) said that even doing
> something simple for the
> > small number of cases the company would see isn't
> cost effective (yet).
> >
> > Apologies to any accountants in the audience...
> :-)
> >
> >   
>   I agree with ya too but all I'm saying is that I
> don't see it as an
> added task to the manufacturers as much as I see how
> it could be a great
> selling feature. Let's say they pay $75 for each
> machine license and
> they offer laptops with no OS for $50 less, this way
> they can assign $25
> for the erase script in their tight budgets.
>   How many guys out there would like an option to
> buy an OS-less system
> and save $50 as well?
>   What if they already had xp on a box that's old or
> died and they don't
> want to pay the "tax" again?
>   It's better than forced food and in a free
> enterprise society (I think
> it still is), I think it should at least be
> available.
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