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From: "Ian P. Thomas" <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Laptop without Windows
In-Reply-To: <3B1D4BC4.A4698439@froekjaer.org> from Flemming Froekjaer at "Jun 5, 2001 02:14:44 pm"
To: flemming@froekjaer.org (Flemming Froekjaer)
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 20:13:38 -0400 (EDT)
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	I am almost positive that there is a link on MS's website that
provides info on how to get money back after buying a computer with windows
preinstalled.  Do a search on google.  There own license gives you a
certain number of days to return it, but I'm not sure if that includes OEM
versions.

Ian

In the last episode, Flemming Froekjaer stated...
> 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 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.
> 
> \Flemming
> 
> 
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