Hi, I am planning to buy a laptop soon, and I will install linux on it.
Unfortunately it seems to be impossible to buy a brand-name laptop that doesn't come with windows. This means that I am being forced, more or less, to pay a sum of money to microsoft. <rant> I feel very strong against paying them money, exactly because they are counting on people to give in to the pressure and just pay their tax to the monopoly, so that it can opress its rivals even more. In today's world I feel that windows is trying to force itself on me, in various ways. Therefore I want to use my obvious right not to use it and, obviously, not to pay an involuntary tax. </rant> I know that at least one person succeeded in getting his money back, from toshiba: http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/toshiba.html Personally I do not understand the law issues, so I don't know how good a case I have if I would mail the retailer / manufacturer, and tell them that I am entitled to a refund, according to the microsoft EULA license agreement. Does anyone have an opinion on this matter? Also, could it be that this situation is illegal, and that a court of law in Israel could *require* the retailers/manufacturers to let the customers buy a machine without an OS? regards, Christoph ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
