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  From: Ant <fineales@ozemail.com.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 00:32:31 +1030

Re: Buying a workstation

I think it all depends on your company.  Where I work we sell primarily
microsoft, but we often sell machines with no OS, and will install our
copy
of windows in the service department on anyones machine who can produce
a PID
number.  We sell other OSs as well, on request. I have installed OS/2 on
request and
If anyone wanted linux we would do that as well (althugh unfortunatly it
hasnt happened yet. 
One of our larger customers often purches machines with no os, and i
know for a fact that most of those get linux :)

Ant

Alan Kennington wrote:
> 
> On this topic, a couple of months ago,
> I bought a laptop, and was handed over a copy of
> windows 95, which I said I didn't need.
> It was also installed on this second-hand laptop
> already.
> They guy told me he had to give me an OS,
> because otherwise he would get a $40,000 fine or
> something.
> He said I could come in and spend 3 hours installing
> linux in his shop if I liked.
> But he said that there was a presumption that
> anyone who did not have a copy of an MS OS
> certificate was going to use a pirate copy of
> an MS OS.
> 
> I.e. there is a presumption of intent to steal, if you
> don't buy an MS OS certificate.
> So now I have a daggy old $50 wind95 OS
> in an unopened packet at home, and MS has $50.
> 
> Despite Geoffrey's world-famous pioneering
> tour de force (which filled up space
> in newspapers which politicians would die for),
> the practice is still that
> computer vendors, even second-hand,
> are intimidated by a kind of
> mafia-like operation into hadning over money
> for stuff that people don't want.
> 
> It's a bit like having to hand over money for
> a crate of Coke every time you ahve a party,
> because you need to have some
> fizzy drink in the summer, and Coke is the dominant
> vendor, and if you don't buy any, then
> it is presumed that you will steal some Coke from
> somewhere for your party.
> 
> Cheers,
> Alan Kennington.
> 
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