Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 17:58:32 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Scott Mitchell" <scott.mitchell@mail.com> Cc: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>, "Konstantinos Konstantinidis" <kkonstan@duth.gr>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Brad Knowles" <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <03fb01c18009$92391500$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <0112071641320B.01380@stinky.akitanet.co.uk><000b01c17f42$c23ab140$0a0 <15377.17350.796336.801464@guru.mired.org> <006901c17f70$19a2f820$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <a05101004b8373f5230e8@[10.0.1.16]> <03df01c18002$11aee8d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011208164114.F280@localhost>
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Scott writes: > You're lucky, then. That hasn't been my experience, > but then I do try to avoid going into computer > stores if I can avoid them. I guess the latter explains the former, then, doesn't it? But it also calls into question your original assertion; how do you know what is sold in the stores if you avoid them? > Most manufacturers of consumer-grade desktop > PCs *will* sell me a machine preinstalled with > something other then Windows, and without any > part of the price going to Microsoft? I don't know--I've never asked. I just erase whatever is on the machine and install what I want. In fact, I do that even when the preinstalled OS is the one I want. > I'm well aware that some companies will do this, > but some is not most, as you pointed out previously. Most people, like me, never ask. > How do you know it's not important to them? > You didn't ask. But I _do_ ask, and they have simply never thought of it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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