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[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Friday 16 June 2006 17:41, "Toby Anderson" <toby.anderson at gmail.com> wrote:
> how about "with an OS that increases the price of the product"

That definition will exclude GNU/Linux distros distributed as part of an OEM 
deal with the distro maker. For instance, HP distributes Mandriva or Ubuntu 
with some of their machines (though not in Australia, unfortunately). They 
pay an OEM fee to Mandriva/Canonical as part of this arrangement.

I don't think there is much need to be nitpicky about this. IMHO, "Notebooks 
Without Windows" is an appropriate title. In the case of Apple, it is taken 
for granted that they ship their systems with Mac OS and nothing else.

Of course there are some other exceptions [1], but they are few and far 
between.


[1] for instance, Tadpole [http://www.tadpole.com/] ship UltraSPARC-based 
laptops running Solaris.


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