On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Binand Sethumadhavan <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/1/22 Abhijit Navale <[email protected]>: >> When I looked to buy a branded laptop, I felt much bad that I can customize >> a laptop *BUT* I MUST select a M$ operating system. > > I have seen any number of laptops from various brands in my local > Croma store that has no OS (or rather, with some primitive OS like > FreeDOS). >
Such availability is not a given be it Croma or Lam. Rd. distributors. The scenario keeps varying. A couple of months ago, my distributor was offering Dell Inspirons with no OS but not anymore. As for getting a refund back by refusing the MS EULA - good luck. -- Arun Khan -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

