On 10/10/06 21:44 +0000, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > On Tuesday 10 October 2006 15:48, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > > Tried finding laptops without MS Windows and still supported and > > fully functional? Or a branded consumer level desktop? Or a desktop > > from most assemblers? > > Unbranded, unmarked laptops are available. Laptops with FreeDOS are > perfectly available. Laptops with Linux preinstalled are now available.
Note the _supported_ part. > If you dont like Windoze running on your laptop / branded desktop you > can say NO to the license agreement when you switch on your machine for > the first time. Format the disk and ask for a refund from M$. > > Assembled hardware doesnt come preinstalled with any OS. You always have > the choice of what gets loaded on your PC. You can ask your "assembler" > to put Linux. Its not as if M$ is forcing you to install anything on > your assembled PC, is it? ;) > And what kind of support do you expect? > > What part of 'Microsoft was convicted for illegal monopolistic > > practices regarding re-distribution agreements' do you not > > understand? > > Eh? What has that got *anything* to do with the topic? Monopolistic > market practices are supposed to be discouraged by the government and > the respective market regulator. Is their failure anything to do with > this topic? This is out of the scope of this discussion. > Nope. That was a hint as to why getting stuff without paying the OS tax is difficult. Devdas Bhagat -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
