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[Paul Schulz]

Greetings all..

Another suggestion..
How about 'UbuntuFriendlyLaptops' (could also be
CommunityFriendlyLaptops), and we define what we mean including
various categories...

eg.
- Suppliers that will provide Laptops without charging for unwanted
operating systems or software (suitable for installing Ubuntu)
- Suppliers of Laptops with pre-installed, certified and supported Ubuntu.
and
- Suppliers which will sell you a 'standard' Laptop with MS Windows,
but provide you with a 'cashback' for any software you don't use. (Not
sure how many of these there may be, but the Australian Fair Trade
Commission may have something about this.)

[Andrew.. do you wan me to hack this into the Wiki?]

Cheers,
Paul

On 6/16/06, Andrew <andrew at swinndesign.com> wrote:
>
>
> Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > On Friday 16 June 2006 18:42, Andrew <andrew at swinndesign.com> wrote:
> >>> Rather than single out Microsoft, would it be more preferable to used
> >>> 'Retails which do  and don't supply laptops with an operating system.'
> >> The page is now at
> >> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Projects/NotebooksWithoutOperatingSys
> >> tem
> >
> > I must disagree with this move. Some Microsoft OEM agreements specify that a
> > vendor ships their systems with an operating system. This is why you see Dell
> > shipping their N-series computers with FreeDOS.
> >
>
> Thats fine. However I believe hardware should be distributed without
> software attached without a choice to not take that software.
>
> Also note that I did make mention to include those selling notebooks
> that were including free operating system (emphasis on not extra cost).
>
> I can move it elsewhere if most people as against such a thing. I merely
> put it up on suggestion from another on this list/group.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew Swinn
>
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