On Monday 10 February 2003 19:46, Tass wrote:
> What I've heard on this matter is that the M$ contract states only that
> builders can no longer sell "empty" chassis. There must be AN OS with the
> computer.
>
> This was to counter the practice of quantity purchasers buying blank boxes,
> (and by
me has a strong purchasing
arrangement with Dell, so, could be. :-)
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>)From: Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>)Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 07:15:19 -0900
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tting Linux on a retail laptop, without paying for Windows
Re: > > IBM would be the best bet.
Re: >
Re: > sadly, for all the hype coming out of IBM these days about
Re: > how they're firmly behind linux and are investing bazillions
Re: > of dollars in it, it appears that yo
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On Monday 10 February 2003 08:23, John Nichel wrote:
> The mother o
On Monday 10 February 2003 08:23, John Nichel wrote:
> The mother of a good friend of mine is a VP for IBM (in sales), and
> according to his mother, IBM is still bound by M$ contract to do this.
That is what I thought. Can you have your friend find out how log this
contractual obligation will be
The mother of a good friend of mine is a VP for IBM (in sales), and
according to his mother, IBM is still bound by M$ contract to do this.
Andy wrote:
IBM would be the best bet.
sadly, for all the hype coming out of IBM these days about
how they're firmly behind linux and are investing bazillio
> > IBM would be the best bet.
>
> sadly, for all the hype coming out of IBM these days about
> how they're firmly behind linux and are investing bazillions
> of dollars in it, it appears that you still can't buy a thinkpad
> that doesn't have windows pre-loaded on it.
>
> i'll finally start taking
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>Subject: Getting Linux on a retail laptop, without paying for Windows
>
>
>Does anybody know of a major laptop manufactorer that will sell a system
>with Red Hat or any other linux distribution pre-installed? If not
>Linux, perhaps without an OS?
>
>I'm
On 10 Feb 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> IBM would be the best bet.
sadly, for all the hype coming out of IBM these days about
how they're firmly behind linux and are investing bazillions
of dollars in it, it appears that you still can't buy a thinkpad
that doesn't have windows pre-loaded on it.
i'
MicroLink from Estonia will be the best !
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From: Caleb Groom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 10:16 AM
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Subject: Getting Linux on a retail laptop, without paying for Windows
Does anybody know of a major laptop
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 19:19, Andy wrote:
> On Sunday 09 February 2003 23:15, Caleb Groom wrote:
> > Does anybody know of a major laptop manufactorer that will sell a system
> > with Red Hat or any other linux distribution pre-installed? If not
> > Linux, perhaps without an OS?
> >
> > I'm pricing
On Sunday 09 February 2003 23:15, Caleb Groom wrote:
> Does anybody know of a major laptop manufactorer that will sell a system
> with Red Hat or any other linux distribution pre-installed? If not
> Linux, perhaps without an OS?
>
> I'm pricing laptops but I know that some of the cost is OS relate
Does anybody know of a major laptop manufactorer that will sell a system
with Red Hat or any other linux distribution pre-installed? If not
Linux, perhaps without an OS?
I'm pricing laptops but I know that some of the cost is OS related.
Having a MS XP license isn't something that will be of any
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