The pernicious Microsoft tax

From	Hils <hils@saynotospam.net>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	The pernicious Microsoft tax
Date	2014-09-10 10:05 +0100
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
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(A bit of a rant...)

A few days ago I called into my local computer shop. They had some
neat-looking, well-specced laptops at a good price, and as my current
model is nearly six years old I asked the owner of the shop whether he
could supply any without operating systems. His face dropped as he said
that he had been unable to find any suppliers of laptops without Windows
pre-installed, though he was still looking.

Why is this sh*t still happening? For the foreseeable future my working
OS will be GNU/Linux or BSD. Why should I have to pay for a Microsoft
licence when the first thing I'll do with a new laptop is permanently
remove all traces of their unwanted product from it?

I should probably take this up with my member of parliament (who
supposedly represents both myself and the shop owner), but he's every
inch a corporate stooge: the last I heard about him he was still trying
to start wars with Syria and Iran.

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The pernicious Microsoft tax Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-09-10 10:05 +0100
  Re: The pernicious Microsoft tax Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-10 09:50 +0000
    Re: The pernicious Microsoft tax Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-09-10 10:58 +0100
  Re: The pernicious Microsoft tax Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-09-10 12:57 +0300
    Re: The pernicious Microsoft tax Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-09-10 19:20 +0000
      Re: The pernicious Microsoft tax Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-09-10 23:55 +0100
        Re: The pernicious Microsoft tax Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-09-11 08:53 +0000
  Re: The pernicious Microsoft tax mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2014-09-10 18:00 +0100
    Re: The pernicious Microsoft tax Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-09-10 13:25 -0400
      Re: The pernicious Microsoft tax mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2014-09-10 18:44 +0100
        Re: The pernicious Microsoft tax Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-09-10 21:46 +0100
      Re: The pernicious Microsoft tax Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2014-09-11 11:04 +0300
  Re: The pernicious Microsoft tax Peter Mc Donough <mcd-mail-lists@gmx.net> - 2014-09-10 19:29 +0200
  Re: The pernicious Microsoft tax Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-09-10 21:37 +0000
  Re: The pernicious Microsoft tax greymausg <maus@mail.com> - 2014-09-12 20:35 +0000
    Re: The pernicious Microsoft tax Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-09-12 23:51 -0400
    Re: The pernicious Microsoft tax Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-09-13 08:15 +0100
  Re: The pernicious Microsoft tax Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> - 2014-09-13 14:51 +0200
    Re: The pernicious Microsoft tax Peter Mc Donough <mcd-mail-lists@gmx.net> - 2014-09-13 18:08 +0200
      Re: The pernicious Microsoft tax Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> - 2014-09-13 18:19 +0200

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