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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.


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