On Tuesday 28 Jan 2003 6:54 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:17:07AM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 Jan 2003 8:34 am, Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed) wrote: > > > Glad to hear that the Danish are at least a bit flexible. > > > Didn't get the Dutch Dell that far: they told me that they simply don't > > > have time to check the correct working of their machine other than by > > > testing it with WindowsXP. And furthermore there seems to be a law that > > > forbids selling of PC's without an OS on it. > > > Wonder who made that law. > > > > Dell in the UK told me years ago that it was illegal to sell a box > > without windows on it. This was when I was buying a replacement box for > > my granddaughter. I stuck out, saying that it certainly was not, quoted > > my registration code, and insisted. > > What registration code would that be? > > --hendrik
Just the Win98 keycode from her installation disk for the soon-to-be-retired cum my-first-look-at-linux box. Of course I realise now that it didn't prove much - I could have had 20 boxes installed from the same disk, I suppose, but at the time I was full of righteous indignation. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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