2008/12/3 Rafi Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Zvi, > - First, congratulations for winning this important battle ! > > - Second, I myself intend to buy a laptop in the near future. > > And indeed, after surfing many israeli websites, I found out that all > of them come with windows. I don't intend to use windows on my laptop. > So may I ask: How long this process you ran took ? (from going to > court till getting that payment) ? what do you advice me to do ? > > Or let's put it this way: it seems that your important struggle took a lot > of time and headache. You won your case. However, from what appears > in that news item, I doubt whether it is a precedent. They say there > that it was a "pshara", and it says there that they are not > binded by this case and it is "לפנים משורת הדין", > > So what do you advice me to do ? to buy and then to go to court ? > It seems to me that all the hassle of such a procedure , and > traveling from the north the vendor offices (usually in the center) > and back in case I will win it, is simply is not acceptable for me. > > And if I am not wrong, I heard that there are man known vendors who seel > laptops with free linux abroad. And this is true for quite a time. > > > Regards, > Rafi >
Rafi, contact Dell in Israel and tell them that you want a computer with either Ubuntu/FreeDOS (they call these Open Source Laptops in Dell-speak) or no OS at all. If we do not start telling the distributors that we want this, then how can we expect them to provide it? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я а-б-в-г-д-е-ё-ж-з-и-й-к-л-м-н-о-п-р-с-т-у-ф-х-ц-ч-ш-щ-ъ-ы-ь-э-ю-я ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
