[Am-info] Dell Outsmarts Microsoft!

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.08.14 01:57 PM, Geoffrey typed: ============

>I think it's an issue of they want to work around the license but they 
>don't want to outright piss M$ off.  The assumption is, someone getting 
>one of these boxes will put something else on there rather than freedos. 
>  If someone buys it with a preloaded Linux, they may well check it out 
>and keep it on there.

   So Dell may expect some of its customers to load prepurchased 
corporate Windows licenses instead of Linux... I see.


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