On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 10:53 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Lloyd Kvam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At least we managed to avoid buying an unwanted Windows license. > > The question is, did you avoid paying for it anyway? > > I've noticed in the past that many PCs being sold without a Windows > license cost the same as the ones with. I've wondered if that's Dell > pocketing the difference, or whether Microsoft is still getting all > (or some) of the money, just not giving us the license.
In the past, I determined that Dell's Ubuntu systems were slightly less than the Windows equivalent. I did not check this time before placing the purchase. I'll poke around and report back. > They've been nailed in court for doing so before, so this isn't baseless > speculation. > > -- Ben > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp DLSLUG/GNHLUG library http://dlslug.org/library.html http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dlslug http://www.librarything.com/rsshtml/recent/dlslug http://www.librarything.com/rss/recent/dlslug _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
