Windows refund experience?

[Ian Goldberg]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 05:38:00PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 05:30:23PM -0400, Ian Goldberg wrote:
> > The new Dell laptop just arrived by Purolator.  I've got the Debian
> > install CD at the ready, but before I do anything, does anyone have
> > (local, or at least Canadian) experience with trying to get a Windows
> > refund from a manufacturer?
> 
> I suspect Dell is going to be VERY hard to get anything out of, given
> they probably have their own agreement with MS, and don't even use the
> standard install disk.  Most likely they don't even give you media.

They in fact give a "Re-installation CD", including SP1.  They've got to
present you with a EULA at *some* point, though.  [Possibly after
bootup.]

> Simplest is to just let it blow up windows and forget it ever existed,
> when you boot Linux.

But then we don't get to impress on Dell that they really should offer
to sell machines without the "Microsoft tax" included automatically.  I
don't really like that I'm enriching Microsoft just because I bought
some hardware.

   - Ian
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