[Sussex] Window's Refunds

[Gareth Ablett]

 From: Geoffrey Teale [mailto:tealeg at member.fsf.org]
 Subject: Re: [Sussex] Window's Refunds

> Richie Jarvis wrote:
> > Very interesting - I recently purchased some machines from Dell for
> > Linux installations - the best I could achieve was to have Windows XP
> > Home on the system at a saving of £30.  They refused to supply the
> > systems without an OS, as Microsoft didn't allow it!
> 
> Yup, the OEM license agreement that Dell have with Micrsoft prohibits
> them from selling certain lines without Windows licenses.  This doesn't
> seem to be the case for "workstation" and "server" class systems (I
> bough a dual Xeon workstation from Dell two years ago now and it came
> with Red Hat 8 preinstalled), but most laptops and non-Xeon desktops
> seem to be stricken with this problem.
> 
> As Angelo mentioned the best answer is to go with a vendor who will ship
> Linux or OS free.  That's quite hard though when you need 40 identical
> laptops with well defined hardware for a given date.
> 
I would of though that IBM would be a good place to go but considering that they recently sold of there consumer pc market I don't know where this stands anymore. Plus dell are cheaper then IBM.

Gareth Ablett
Systems Developer

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