Funny you mention this We were discussing this the other day on #tclug I emailed Dell about this same issue, so far no response. I was assuming their answer would be as you stated, which is getting me to think. This seems to me to be monopolistic. Forcing the consumer to purchase software licenses wether or not they want to seems to me like nothing short of illegal and anticompetitive as well as possibly violating anti-trust laws. However, outside of contacting our nice Mr Mike Hatch, MN Atty General, or possibly a good corporate lawyer, I can only fume in my anti-M$ anger and wish there was a better way. Anyone know (or have strong feelings) about the legality of forcing customers to purchase M$ licenses? "I just wanna buy a damn laptop!" -Kevin On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:27:02 -0600 Jared Burns <jaredburns at acm.org> wrote: > Just began my search for a laptop yesterday. I was able to "customize" a > sweet laptop on Dell's site except for the fact that they insisted I choose a > Microsoft OS and Office Suite. I even called them to ask if there was any way > they would sell me a laptop without MS software on it. No dice. :( > > I'm new to the laptop universe (this'll be my first). Anyone know of anyone > that will sell me a bare laptop? The only place I've found so far is > www.gamepc.com > > - Jared > > On Tue Nov 20 10:53 am, you wrote: > > Paul Overby <poverby at megsinet.net> wrote: > > > I see Dell announced yesterday that it is offering Red hat on a couple > > > of its new servers. >{-- snipped to protect the touchy --} ________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >