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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Dell customer gets Windows refund
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Thanks to Dell, one UK Linux user has succeeded in the perennial quest
>| to buy and use a laptop without paying for an unused bundled OS.
> `----
>
> http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2006/110706-dell-windows.html
>
> There was only one precedence (in France, IIRC) to this one. Could this
> develop into something that works at a largeer scale? Class action-type
> refunds perhaps? This could pressure Dell into preinstalling Linux on more
> lap/desktops than they currently do.
Ahhh! Success! as you say, let's hope for many many more instances of
this.
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
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