Why should you pay to avoid something? Well, if you have read Terry Pratchett's Discworld books, you'll know that there is something called the Thieves' Guild, and that you pay an annual fee to avoid being robbed in the streets ;-)
/jan -----Original Message----- From: Johnny Andersson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 07-Sep-06 08:20 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [users] Long live Bill Gates!.? One thing that is frustrating, at least for me, is that when I buy a new PC I have to pay more for a PC without an operating system than for a PC with Windows included. I am not sure that's the fact all over the world, but it is at least here in my "odd" country. So it feels like if I want a new PC with Linux, at least I either have to pay for: 1. Windows + PC or 2. PC + "avoid Windows fee" where 2 is more expensive than 1... Doesn't sound fair to me. Why should I pay for avoiding something? Maybe this is not 100% true, but it least it feels like it is. Johnny P.S. I just remembered a funny thing I often read in the local Dell ads in the papers here. Translated to English it reads something like this: "Dell recommends Windows XP Professional Edition" Then I take a look at the different PC's they sell and ALL of them comes with Windows XP Home Edition... =) So they obviously want you to buy their computers with XP Home and then buy an upgrade to XP Pro..? Yeah, right... D.S.
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