Linked by David Adams on Sat 30th Aug 2008 16:20 UTC, submitted by michuk
Compulsory Windows purchasing by way of PC bundles is one of the biggest hurtles to alternative OS adoption. Some people have been able to fight it: "Reading the Slashdot article about Dave Mitchell from Great Britain, who got a 47 pounds refund from Dell for returning his copy of Windows was an inspiration for me to check, if it is possible in Poland, too. This is my success story."
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2007-06-06
This is very good, that someone decided to fight with "the system" and won :-). Thanks to this story, other people can try to do the same and save some money. H
However, I was just thinking, whether it would be possible to do the same thing with the hardware of a laptop or a computer? Could one buy a laptop, and then request a refund for e.g. a hard drive, because one does not want to use it (because, e.g. one wants to use only Mendriva Flash)? Is there a difference between requesting refund for pre-install windows and e.g. hard drive?
Edited 2008-08-31 10:11 UTC