notebook decision?

Kristian Rink kristian at zimmer428.net
Fri Dec 1 07:13:36 UTC 2006


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Hey there;

Chanchao schrieb:

> The man's company already owns licenses I think.  Claiming your money
> back applies to computers bought with OEM versions of Windows installed.


You're right, but even this is a reason worth claiming money back I
think - in the end, I want to buy _hardware_ here. Personally, I prefer
running Ubuntu or some other Linux distribution on my machines. In our
company, we do have a bunch of Windows XP licenses, and I do own one to
run inside VMWare server. Do I have to pay for _another_ one, no matter
whether I actually need it, no matter whether I want to use Linux or a
Windows license I paid earlier? This whole sort of OEM software bundling
might be okay selling computers for "home usage", but it's not something
I want while buying professional equipment - both because it interfers
with my (the system administrators) license management policy and
because it "mixes up" hardware and software costs while trying compare
different offers. This is considerably bad.

Cheers,
Kristian


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