On October 6, 2005 07:47, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2005/10/05/212187/DelldeliversOS-f > >reedesktopforLinuxlovers.htm > > > > > > Kaj Haulrich. > > Kaj: > And here's the sad story of trying to buy one: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/06/dell_open_pc/ > > -- cmg
So they charge you more for the same machine without XP, and claim to save you money. That's a nice bit of corporate doublespeak. I guess Dell hasn't changed. IIRC from the antitrust trial, one of the things that came out was that their contract with M$ required them to pay the tax on every unit shipped, even if it didn't have Windoze on it. I think they're required to ship it with some OS too, which is why the FreeDOS thing (I tried FreeDOS once, DOS programs don't work on it, so it's pretty much useless). So it looks like if you buy from Dell, you're paying the M$ tax no matter what. I wonder if it's the same with HP? -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine.
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