Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 00:59:17 +1100 From: Andy Newman <atrn@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: M$ refund.. Message-ID: <19990122005917.A747@ska.bsn> In-Reply-To: <199901211255.NAA26361@father.ludd.luth.se>; from Peter Brevik on Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 01:54:59PM %2B0100 References: <199901211255.NAA26361@father.ludd.luth.se>
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> Is this not an option in US ? > > /Peter I can't talk for the US being in Australia but I always buy from people who give you the option of not paying for a MS operating system. This usually means not buying from a big-name company but many suppliers assemble systems from quality parts at very reasonable rates. The whole license mess that's been uncovered seems to be far more of a problem for the larger Microsoft OEM customers who've simply shipped the Microsoft license agrement as part of their products without considering its implications to themselves (I'm sure they had people read it before shipping product [at least the first time] but they probably dismissed the possibility any consumer would reject the purchase based on the license, if they read it at all). The exact legal interpretation of the agreement is still open (AFAIK) but seems to allow the refund route if "product(s)" is interpretered to mean the Microsoft OS alone. That seems okay to me. I'm not even entitled to a refund so I can't be biased ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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