Re: [ILUG-BOM] Windows tax refund

2007-01-09 Thread പ്രവീണ്‍‌|Praveen
2007/1/8, PV Sundarram [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hey, just chk this out this guy frm uk has got a refund frm acer. http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=139627 This was an excellent discussion. It is interesting to learn how many laws they throw to the dust bin and go uncaught. Great to see

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Windows tax refund

2007-01-08 Thread Rony
Dinesh Joshi wrote: On Sunday 07 January 2007 22:20, Devdas Bhagat wrote: The point is, Toshiba does NOT treat the OS as separate from the hardware. You cannot get a refund on one _part_. None of the vendors do that generally. Most of the low level execs aren't even aware of the fact that

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Windows tax refund

2007-01-08 Thread PV Sundarram
hey, just chk this out this guy frm uk has got a refund frm acer. http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=139627 The point is, Toshiba does NOT treat the OS as separate from the hardware. You cannot get a refund on one _part_. he makes a counter argument for the same. Devdas

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Windows tax refund

2007-01-07 Thread आनंद (Anand M R)
On 1/7/07, Philip Tellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometime on Jan 6, NA cobbled together some glyphs to say: Having faith in GNU/Linux..I am not willing to use Windows on my new purcahaes of laptops preloaded this OS. Like Europe, could it be possible for India to get money back by freeing

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Windows tax refund

2007-01-07 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Sunday 07 January 2007 19:53, आनंद (Anand M R) wrote: When i asked the toshiba guys to give me the laptop minus windows they plainly refused. It seems toshiba recommends only windows. :( Dell generally honours such requests. You can buy the laptop with Windows and when you first turn it on,

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Windows tax refund

2007-01-07 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 07/01/07 20:44 +0530, Dinesh Joshi wrote: On Sunday 07 January 2007 19:53, (Anand M R) wrote: When i asked the toshiba guys to give me the laptop minus windows they plainly refused. It seems toshiba recommends only windows. :( Dell generally honours such requests. You can

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Windows tax refund

2007-01-07 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Sunday 07 January 2007 21:49, Devdas Bhagat wrote: On 07/01/07 20:44 +0530, Dinesh Joshi wrote: Dell generally honours such requests. You can buy the laptop with Windows and when you first turn it on, you can refuse the EULA and contact the vendor ( Toshiba ) and tell them that you want

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Windows tax refund

2007-01-07 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 07/01/07 22:11 +0530, Dinesh Joshi wrote: On Sunday 07 January 2007 21:49, Devdas Bhagat wrote: On 07/01/07 20:44 +0530, Dinesh Joshi wrote: Dell generally honours such requests. You can buy the laptop with Windows and when you first turn it on, you can refuse the EULA and contact

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Windows tax refund

2007-01-07 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Sunday 07 January 2007 22:20, Devdas Bhagat wrote: The point is, Toshiba does NOT treat the OS as separate from the hardware. You cannot get a refund on one _part_. None of the vendors do that generally. Most of the low level execs aren't even aware of the fact that one can refuse the EULA

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Windows tax refund

2007-01-07 Thread jtd
On Sunday 07 January 2007 22:11, Dinesh Joshi wrote: On Sunday 07 January 2007 21:49, Devdas Bhagat wrote: On 07/01/07 20:44 +0530, Dinesh Joshi wrote: Dell generally honours such requests. You can buy the laptop with Windows and when you first turn it on, you can refuse the EULA and

[ILUG-BOM] Windows tax refund

2007-01-06 Thread Network Accelerator
Hi, Having faith in GNU/Linux..I am not willing to use Windows on my new purcahaes of laptops preloaded this OS. Like Europe, could it be possible for India to get money back by freeing ourself from the Windows tax by returning unused Windows license on new purchase of laptop/PC? Please read

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Windows tax refund

2007-01-06 Thread Philip Tellis
Sometime on Jan 6, NA cobbled together some glyphs to say: Having faith in GNU/Linux..I am not willing to use Windows on my new purcahaes of laptops preloaded this OS. Like Europe, could it be possible for India to get money back by freeing ourself from the Windows tax by returning unused