Manager knew what Linux was. I'm guessing they called their head office. They simply told me that Vista purchase was required. At that point, I just didn't want to waste any more time. We needed a laptop purchased and setup with dev tools to get some weekend work in. Sayang, Octagon had really good prices.
Mark David Dumlao wrote: > Oh wow. > > Are you sure that the manager/sales guy understood your position? Is > it possible that they thought that your ubuntu was some sort of > pirated operating system or something like that? Also, you said the > manager instructed the salesperson to make a call. Make a call to > whom? And was that guy able to properly explain the situation to his > upper up? Is it possible that his upper up thought that you were going > to "install your own os" the pirated way... > > On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Carlos Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Hi, > > Just wanted to share a true story with PLUG members. One of CYWare's > programmers' laptop wouldn't power up yesterday and since we were > chasing a deadline for a project, I decided to purchase a new one > right > away. I went to Octagon in Park Square 1 Glorietta and found a decent > Compaq laptop reasonably priced at 40K PHP. The laptop box said > it came > free with the DOS operating system which didn't matter to me since we > were going to install Linux on it. > > I called the sales guy, handed him my credit card, and told him I > wanted > to purchase the machine. He then told me that they were not > allowed to > sell the laptop unless I purchased an operating system with it. I > told > them that my company, CYWare, sells primarily Linux based products > and I > would be installing Ubuntu on it. The sales guy insisted that a > licensed operating system had to be installed on it and told me I > had to > purchase Vista with the machine. I then asked for the manager and > explained what I was trying to do. The manager instructed the > sales guy > to make a phone call and after the phone conversation, they > re-iterated > the same policy: Windows Vista had to be purchased with the > machine. I > then asked the manager if he was willing to give up the sale because > there was no way I was going to pay for something I really didn't > need. > To my amazement, he said he was. > > Needless to say, I took my business elsewhere. After visiting a few > stores, I realized that the nice laptops all came with Vista. I ended > up going to WellCom and buying a more expensive laptop that came with > Windows Vista installed. Of course, once it got back to the > office, the > hard drive was reformatted and Vista was replaced with Ubuntu. > > I know I could have researched the purchase more carefully, but > unfortunately, I was in a rush and foolishly assumed that a laptop > purchase would be simple. Go figure... > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
