The same goes for Gateway 2000, pretty much. I just tried to configure a system from their web page - you couldn't tell them not to install/include an operating system. On some of the systems targeted for business you can choose between NT or 95. Dana Newman wrote: > > I have read just about all of this list for the last three weeks, > and haven't seen anyone bring this up yet. > > Here's a for-instance: > > Go to any Best-buy and tell'em you want to buy a Compaq Deskpro. > Tell the store manager you won't buy it unless the disk is "clean" and > you > want a discount because it doesn't have any software on it. > You get two answers: > 1. They won't do it > 2. They will tell you you can delete the software after you buy the > machine. > > Call the Compaq corporation at any 1-800 number you can find, > and request the same thing you did from it's retailer(s) (ie; > just a machine, NOT the software). > > Just like their distributors: > 1. They won't do it. > 2. They will tell you that "software is a value added feature, > not included as a cost of the machine". This is to infer that > the Microsoft Windows 95 software they are forcing down your > throat IF you want to buy the Compaq MACHINE... doesn't cost > you anything. > > Bullshit! > I'm mad as hell... and I'm not gonna take it anymore. > > As a consumer I do still have a choice. That choice is > to not purchase the Compaq machine I wanted, but to > purchase a machine I don't prefer from another vendor.
S/MIME Cryptographic Signature