From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 5 15:22: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maila.telia.com (maila.telia.com [194.22.194.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43B1D37B409 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 15:21:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by maila.telia.com (8.11.2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f55MLte13924 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 00:21:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ertr1013.student.uu.se (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA28053 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 00:21:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 14340 invoked by uid 1001); 5 Jun 2001 22:21:37 -0000 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 00:21:37 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Flemming Froekjaer Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop without Windows Message-ID: <20010606002137.A14324@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Flemming Froekjaer , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3B1D4BC4.A4698439@froekjaer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B1D4BC4.A4698439@froekjaer.org>; from flemming@froekjaer.org on Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:14:44PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:14:44PM -0700, Flemming Froekjaer wrote: > I was looking at buying a Dell Inspiron 8000, but there was no option to > buy it without a windows os. > So i called them instead and explained that I wanted to use the laptop > with FreeBSD. They said that would be ok, but i would have to pay the > same price, as with the OS. > Is that normal? I am afraid that is all too common. Many (most?) 'brand name' computers come with Windows pre-installed and you have to pay for it even if you don't want it. They probably have a deal with Microsoft where if they install Windows on *all* computers they sell they get a reduced price for Windows. Or they might just be greedy. Or lazy. Or something.... > I know Microsoft is not giving DELL free OS licenses, and I don't want > to support MS by buying there OS, when I'm not going to use it. Buy somewhere/something else. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message