RE: [SLUG] Laptops with Linux pre-installed?

["Meijer, Luke" <Luke.Meijer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Erik

Sounds like you got it all sorted then.

Luke

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From: slug-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:slug-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Erik de Castro Lopo
Sent: Saturday, 18 April 2009 6:11 PM
To: slug@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Laptops with Linux pre-installed?

Jonathan wrote:

> I remember that there was at some stage, soemthing with the EULA with Windows. 
> Essentially, it can only be valid if you voluntarily accept it, therefore, if 
> you don't you can uninstall it, send the CD's and documentation back to 
> Microsoft and they have to "refund" you the value.
> Never tried it, or talked face to face with ayone that has tried it though.
> 
> Any thoughts?

Yep, about 700 times too much trouble. My time is worth more than that.

I am shopping around anyway, so the effort of finding a machine with Linux
pre-installed is part of that effort anyway.

Erik
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