Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:27:38 -0800 From: Johnson David <djohnson@acuson.com> To: darklogik@pittgoth.com Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advocacy help for CS professor Message-ID: <20020322192751.CDACC37B426@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <3C9B7840.6000409@pittgoth.com> References: <20020322013138.A87120@xor.obsecurity.org> <001101c1d1c7$67cf4ae0$a700a8c0@cptnhosedonkey> <3C9B7840.6000409@pittgoth.com>
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On Friday 22 March 2002 10:30 am, Tom Rhodes wrote: > I also found it very aggrovating last week when I called IBM to purhcase > a laptop and they refused to ship a laptop with either linux or a > formatted harddrive! It had to come with WindowsXP, and I replied very > friendly ``I do not want XP, I want to buy a computer, I want my choice > as a customer, can you provide me with my choice?'' and I got smacked > with a very unfortunate no. I find that wrong, I find it ignorant, in > America we are apperently to have the freedom of choice, if I do not > want to pay that $100 (somewhere around there) for software that has no > real use to me, why should I? Simply tell them "no thank you", and take your business elsewhere. Life is too short to waste arguing with salesman who don't want to sell. You may have to capitulate and buy a laptop with Windows on it. But don't knuckle under to the first dealer that won't deal. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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