More on Dell and licenses

[Max Blanco]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Marcel (Free Thinker at Large) Gagne wrote:

> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Every few days, I get these wonderful special offers from Dell via my fax line 
> (I never gave them or anyone the number, but fax offers from various 
> companies come nonetheless).  After reading all the Dell and Windows refund 

Oh... is Dell the business that does that?  I (used to?) get fax-squealing 
phone calls or messages pretty routinely.  The phone number of the caller 
was screened, so I couldn't do much about it.

> posts, I decided to see what happened if you went through the "I don't want 
> Windows installed" process BEFORE you bought a system.  In other words, no 
> question of refunds -- you just don't buy it first and ask later.

<snip>

> The implications of the word FREE here are a powder keg waiting for a match.  
> I chose not to persue it any further and told her I would think about it.   

I think the thing to do now is to summarize this conversation (with names 
and/or badge numbers of the employees) and put it into written form so 
that the Chief Executive Officer is made aware of what his employees are 
doing.  You should ask him to define "FREE" for you in this context.  

Ask the CEO in your letter to define the contract of sale.  

Use of telephony allows his employees not to make written contracts.

Telephone vendors use this to coerce you to accept goods as is defined 
to their advantage.  If you accept the goods, it becomes difficult for you 
to plead... you must use a similar method to the linuxjournal article.




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