Incoming from Curtis Sloan:
> On Mon October 25 2004 10:51, s. keeling wrote:
> <snip>
> > > One thing that you can do is take a knoppix CD with you and ask to
> >
> > I've heard that some places refuse to let you do that. They don't
> > know knoppix and think you may be trying to infect the thing.
>
> <rant>
>
> If I'm going to spend ~$1500+ on hardware that I expect to last at least 3-5
> years (which qualifies as big ticket spending in my world), then they can let
> [snip]
> </rant>
There's two problems you have to accept here:
- They're right. Booting from some unknown CD could do anything it
wanted to the installed software.
- Re-imaging the machine adds to their overhead and takes away from
their profit margin.
- You're just one guy showing up to try this and nobody else wants
to complicate their lives like this, so why should they bother to
allow it?
Tell Dell you want a machine. They'll say great. Tell them you want
it without Windows. They'll say nice knowing you. They don't have to
care. You do it their way or it doesn't get done. They'd love to
have you as a customer, but not if you're going to complicate things.
Go with someone like IBM that's at least paying lip service to
non-Windows users. They may be more sympathetic.
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(*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Please don't Cc: me.
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