Well, here in South Africa I can go to the main computer shops (not many) and can only get XP or Vista on the laptops. Dell wont sell me an OS-less laptop. The components providers like Rectron and Pinnacle can provide me with spares - but as I understand it they sell their pre-build machines (win Win on) for cheaper by spreading the cost of the OS over all their components.
So yes, in Europe or USA its prob possible to get MS free stuff, but is darn diff in this part of the world. On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 07:24 -0400, James Knott wrote: > Hans van der Merwe wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 11:45 +0200, James Hatridge wrote: > > > >> On Tuesday 15 May 2007 03:39, M Harris wrote: > >> > >>> On Monday 14 May 2007 19:09, S Glasoe wrote: > >>> > >>>> And this has what to do with a technical issue with openSUSE Linux? > >>>> > >>> If you cared a whit about the technical issues with Novell openSUSE (let > >>> > >> While I agree with you that we should stay in the know about the evil > >> empire I > >> should point out, what the shitheads at M$ say or do means nothing to me. > >> #1 I will not pay M$ for Linux. > >> #2 I do not pay M$ for M$ or I should say I pay what its worth. :) > >> #3 In the future I will not pay M$ no matter what. > >> > >> JIM > >> > >> > > > > Where do you buy your hardware from? > > Even assembling your own system, somewhere you are probably paying some > > MS tax. > > > > > > Such as??? There is a computer vendor, located near me, that sells > laptops loaded with Linux or no OS for less than they charge for the > same computer with Windows. What MS tax would you be paying on a mother > board? Computer case? > > -- > Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
