On Thursday 29 July 2010 10:45:07 Amarendra Godbole wrote: > There are other problems - most of the h/w vendors in India have no
you mean corporate assemblers? > policy to refund license cost if you decide not to have Microsoft > software on the machines. In US and most of the EU nations, you can > refuse and get the license cost back (~100 Euro, for eg.). No such > rules exist for Indian sales. So you don't even realize that the > software cost is bundled with the h/w! I have not seen refund available on anything here, whatever the reason be. So thats a nonstarter. but the argument of bundling cost holds. nonetheless many laptops are sold with freedos or linux to save the cost/appear to be cheaper, which dealer offers to format with windows as a in- house service. same difference. and it is certainly heartening to know that after-sales support for linux as almost *as good* as with windows ;), for a subjective definition of good. -- Regards Shridhar _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
