[Wiltshire] Wiltshire Digest, Vol 97, Issue 4 (swindon meetings).

[Simon Fryer]

G'Day,

On 11/01/2011, Andrew Meredith <andrew at anvil.org> wrote:

[Windows on pre-built PCs]

> I thought we'd got past all that now. I understood that if you informed
> the vendor that you would be using another OS, or even using using
> Windows, but your own copy, then they were obliged to refund a set
> amount from your bill .. or Bill's bill ;)
>
> Am I wrong ?! I hope not.

In an ideal world. However the options for no OS are not easy to find
unless you build it yourself - a little difficult with a laptop!

Not that I can really talk. I no longer run Linux on any of my boxes...

Simon

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