From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jan 21 08:59:28 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA26493 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 08:59:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zed.ludd.luth.se (zed.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA26485 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 08:59:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pb@ludd.luth.se) Received: from father.ludd.luth.se (pb@father.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.18]) by zed.ludd.luth.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA00313 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 17:59:07 +0100 From: Peter Brevik Received: (pb@localhost) by father.ludd.luth.se (8.6.11/8.6.11) id RAA05206 for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 17:59:05 +0100 Message-Id: <199901211659.RAA05206@father.ludd.luth.se> Subject: M$ refund.. ,a possible circumvent? To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 17:59:05 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If the big companies are offering computers with M$ os only. Why not just use a small company for buying one's computers. As it seems you get things cheaper and at one's specification ? My reason to buy computer in parts is mainly I'm very determine on having the "right stuff" :). Like SCSI, soundcard & video supported by fbsd, many slots etc.. Many resellers at least in Sweden/Norway sell almost only IDE discs with their computers. Or SCSI at fantasy prices.. so usually the computer get bought at one place and the scsi stuff at another. Another thought is that if you must have M$ software bundled, it must be stored. And when you order a harddisc I haven't heard that you have to buy software bundled with the disc. So if one order the computer without storage media and place the media order separatly. Maybe one could circumvent the OS bundling ? /Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message