From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 5 18: 0:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-smtp01.one.net.au (mail-smtp01.one.net.au [61.12.0.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A1E237B401 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 18:00:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim_t@pobox.com) Received: (qmail 3027 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2001 01:00:40 -0000 Received: from async141-mel-isp-6.nas.one.net.au (HELO fweth.persia) (203.101.53.142) by mail-smtp01.one.net.au with SMTP; 6 Jun 2001 01:00:40 -0000 Received: from ur.persia (ur.persia [192.168.3.4]) by fweth.persia (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48B3B1078; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 11:00:33 +1000 (EST) Received: by ur.persia (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7C0DB8793; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 11:00:31 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 11:00:31 +1000 From: Jim Thomas To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop without Windows Message-ID: <20010606110031.D594@ur.persia> References: <3B1D5F9D.A3B81F5D@iowna.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com on Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 04:22:48PM -0700 x-no-archive: yes 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 n Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 04:22:48PM -0700, Chuck Rouillard wrote: > >On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Bill Moran wrote: > >> Flemming Froekjaer wrote: >> > >> > I was looking at buying a Dell Inspiron 8000, but there was no option to >> > buy it without a windows os. >> >> As others have stated ... it's all too common. >> However, there was an instance of a very principal driven fellow who >> purchased a laptop (with windows preinstalled) and then proceeded to >> format the HDD without ever booting the system. Because of the specifics >> of the license agreement, he was able to get a refund on the price of >> the windows license (since he'd never used it) > >Once such instance: > >http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/toshiba.html And some more here: http://www.linuxmall.com/refund I wish you well with this, I'd be very interested to find out how you go with it. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message