<quote who="Nicholas Jefferson"> > > Plus, quite a few companies resell Apple hardware with non-Apple software. > > Do you still effectively pay for OS X or do these companies obtain > hardware sans software from Apple? I'd like a PowerPC but I'd rather > not pay for software I don't use - it's difficult enough getting a > refund for XP, let alone OS X ;-)
The latter, I believe. Hey, even Apple will sell you their hardware with a competing operating system on it (and support it)... If asked nicely! ($$$) - Jeff -- Ubuntu USA & Europe Tour: Oct-Nov 2005 http://wiki.ubuntu.com/3BT "I would hack on the file selector. But I think I would write like, 3 LOC for every 100 lines of mail I had to read/write." - James Willcox -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html