>hardware that needed to be covered. > Not unexpected.
>about the time MDK 7.2 was out, it was announced that if you had a 
>gateway and called for support, and admitted to having installed any 
>open source operating system, your warranty ended with that phone call

I had to call Dell for hardware-support once. The CD-Rom had stopped
working and I asked for a new one. They asked if I could tell them how I
tried to access the drive. I told them (Linux, mount /mnt/cdrom etc).

No further questions asked they sent me a new drive.

Paul

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