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Date:      Wed, 6 Jun 2001 11:00:31 +1000
From:      Jim Thomas <jim_t@pobox.com>
To:        mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Laptop without Windows
Message-ID:  <20010606110031.D594@ur.persia>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0106051622190.57944-100000@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com>; from chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com on Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 04:22:48PM -0700
References:  <3B1D5F9D.A3B81F5D@iowna.com> <Pine.BSF.4.31.0106051622190.57944-100000@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com>

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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



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