Tom Davies wrote: > For most people the answer is to shrug and pay the money because they are > unaware of any other option and wherever they bought the machine from is > unlikely to know either (or at least not admit to knowing). > > > > I just did a quick search for "computers" on Amazon (since it happened to be > open due to someone else's post) and found about 3 out of the first 5 > machines it listed claimed to have OpenOffice pre-installed, one of the > machines was a chrome-book and the other just didn't seem to mention any > programs bundled with the computer. > > > So, things do seem to be improving a bit but i imagine MS will fight against > that.
When I got a new Thinkpad, a couple of years ago, the first things I did were: 1) Build a set of recovery discs. 2) Repartition and install Linux 3) Remove all the crapware from Windows, including that "free" MS Office. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
