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[ale] VM ?

On Tuesday 27 February 2007 04:20:17 pm JK wrote:
> I was pricing some laptops from Dell, HP, Gateway, and a couple
> of others a while back, and I noticed that in most cases,
> "OEM Windows XP Install CD" was an option available at additional
> cost, usually about $70. ?That is, you get the installed OS included
> in the base price, but the actual install CD costs extra. ?Naturally,
> this situation drove me in the direction of the MacBook :-)
> It occurred to me to wonder if that extra charge for the Windows
> install disk might be a violation of one of M$'s various
> court settlements.

I do like to have the actual OS media, to reinstall or do with as I wish. I 
think it should be a violation NOT to get the OS CD with a computer, but 
that's just me:)
when I priced the new Dell computers, they wanted $10 for the OS CD. That I 
can live with. Now that I know I can still get to the rescue partition, even 
without the OS CD, I might not worry, but if I decided to format the entire 
drive Kubuntu, and I wanted to give my XP license to someone else, that 
wouldn't be very easy. With Linux, it is a no brainer.

-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800