Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 16:22:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Chuck Rouillard <chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> Cc: Flemming Froekjaer <flemming@froekjaer.org>, <mobile@FreeBSD.ORG>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Laptop without Windows Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0106051622190.57944-100000@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com> In-Reply-To: <3B1D5F9D.A3B81F5D@iowna.com>
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On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Bill Moran wrote: > Flemming Froekjaer wrote: > > > > I was looking at buying a Dell Inspiron 8000, but there was no option to > > buy it without a windows os. > > So i called them instead and explained that I wanted to use the laptop > > with FreeBSD. They said that would be ok, but i would have to pay the > > same price, as with the OS. > > Is that normal? > > I know Microsoft is not giving DELL free OS licenses, and I don't want > > to support MS by buying there OS, when I'm not going to use it. > > As others have stated ... it's all too common. > However, there was an instance of a very principal driven fellow who > purchased a laptop (with windows preinstalled) and then proceeded to > format the HDD without ever booting the system. Because of the specifics > of the license agreement, he was able to get a refund on the price of > the windows license (since he'd never used it) > He only accomplished this after a great deal of fighting, but it can be > done. I don't remember where, but the story (sort of a HOW-TO for > putting it back in M$ face) is posted on the Internet somewhere. Do some > searching if you feel like fighting for the cause on this one. > If enough people fought over it, maybe companies like Dell would start > offering alternate OSes on laptops, or laptops without OSes. Once such instance: http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/toshiba.html .cr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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