[Am-info] Dell Outsmarts Microsoft!

[Geoffrey]

Paul Rickard wrote:
> ========== 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.

Yeah, that's what they want Microsoft to think...

> 
> 
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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric@3times25.net

I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?