Dell's pricing of Servers with Linux installed

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

According to John Spooner, Dell's approach to Linux pre-install on a
server is to charge $20 more than the cost of the machine with NT
installed.  Which seems to suggest Dell has to pay for NT even if the
customer doesn't want it.  (NT is not covered by the 1995 consent
order).

   Jamie


http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/special/delllinux.html

Dell set to preinstall Linux

PC maker making the open-source OS available on workstations
and servers -- claims a first.

By John G. Spooner, PC Week Online
March 19, 1999 3:15 PM PT 


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James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
I can be reached at love@cptech.org, by telephone 202.387.8030,
by fax at 202.234.5176. CPT web page is http://www.cptech.org