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John Palmer wrote: > The price of a M$ opsys seems to have come down a bit. When this issue > was in the news around 2000 ? the refund was supposed to be 150 pounds > IIRC, and was as hard to get as the customer in the story expected to find > it to be. Dell are also fudging the issue by calling it a goodwill > payment; this means they don't really admit the rightness of the claim but > don't want a fuss just now either. > > It's a shame that a big company who has the buying power to buy say 100 boxes at a time doesn't specify that they don't want Windows. Technically my employer would be in that boat. They use Windows but it is under a licensing agreement which they pay Microsoft for, so in theory they're buying Windows twice for one PC. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html