On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 09:02:21PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
It really bugs me that I have a paid for boxed copy of Win2000 here (sitting unused) , but if I bought a new machine from Dell I would have to buy Windows all over again.
why? you have a full retail copy you can install it on any machine you like, if you don't want to pay windows tax buy your dell with the copy of FreeDOS. Anyhow dell did offer machines with Redhat pre-installed a couple of years back but they dropped it as the amount it cost them to support was not worth the small volume they were selling and they figured that people who wanted Linux would install the distro they wanted, IIRC.
Adam