From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jan 21 10:14:21 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA06922 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:14:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from atari.cmj.com (atari.cmj.com [206.215.141.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA06916 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:14:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aaronc@atari.cmj.com) Received: from localhost (aaronc@localhost) by atari.cmj.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA03442; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:20:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from aaronc@atari.cmj.com) Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:20:30 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Clow To: Drew Baxter cc: Peter Brevik , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: M$ refund.. In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990121114719.00c9c8f0@genesis.ispace.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Drew Baxter wrote: > This is true for cases when you buy your machines in parts. My machine was > built from high-grade Supermicro equipment, and it did not come with Windows. I always buy in parts anyway (don't trust manufacturers to put the best parts in their computers, or to stay non-proprietary)... The case in question -- the person who got cash back for returning Microsoft -- was dealing with a laptop. It's easy to put a tower together yourself and avoid the Win95/98 bundling thingy, however, it's a little more difficult when you're trying to put a laptop together. 8) My roommate, who is a Linux junkie, bought his tower from VA Research (www.varesearch.com) and it came with Linux out of the box. He couldn't find a company to do the same with a laptop however... Aaron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message