[Gllug] Evesham/Linux for a small business

[Stephen Harker]

Chris Bell wrote:
> On Thu 06 Nov, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
>>You can actually take this one step further, if you're feeling brave.
>>
>>I would have pointed out that there was no way I could buy a copy of 
>>Windows XP for £60, and I would have asked them to explain why it wasn't 
>>the full cost of the OS as available, for example, from PC world.
>>
>>They will, of course, say that they buy in bulk and have agreements with 
>>Microsoft and so forth. You then simply say "oh, so I can buy a copy of 
>>Windows XP from you for £60 can I?"
>>
> 
>    Of course Office World would sell retail packs in fancy boxes, rather
> than the bulk plain OEM packs which are supposed to be supplied to trade
> only, although it is probably not too difficult to find a small local
> distributor who would split a box of bulk packs if you really wanted to
> buy a single copy.

www.corporatesoftware.org will sell you an OEM pack of just about 
anything. Legally it has to be supplied with hardware and they get 
around that by sending you a "reconditioned" hard-drive or a £1 mouse or 
something with it. In practice, it's an ancient 500MB IDE disk with 
loads of bad sectors in it but who cares?

SteveH


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