From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 5 17:25:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92D7B37B401; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 17:25:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA05198; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 17:24:52 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200106060024.RAA05198@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: Laptop without Windows In-Reply-To: <3B1D4BC4.A4698439@froekjaer.org> from Flemming Froekjaer at "Jun 5, 1 02:14:44 pm" To: flemming@froekjaer.org (Flemming Froekjaer) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 17:24:52 -0700 (MST) Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com Organization: DCF, Inc. X-O/S: FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE X-Unexpected: The Spanish Inquisition X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 As I recall, Flemming Froekjaer wrote: > 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? Yes. Dell's contract with Microsoft has them pay a licence fee for every system shipped. It doesn't matter what OS is installed, if any. It makes the accounting much easier. On the other hand... In your box will be a Microsoft End User's Licence Agreement (EULA). In it there is a phrase something like "If you don't agree to these terms, return this product unopened for a refund." Take them up on it. > \Flemming -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message