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Re: The pernicious Microsoft tax

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On 2014-09-10 18:44, mm0fmf wrote:
> On 10/09/2014 18:25, Michael Black wrote:
>> How's the pricing?  If there's a difference, is it extra cost for the
>> WIndows that's removed and then the installation of Linux?
>>
> I don't know or care. I recycle laptops from where I work when they are
> typically 2-3 years old and written off. Costs me a battery at most.
> 
> But Brother Hils just likes to bitch about his pets hates.

I was trying to use a local business to get my next laptop, and I can't
currently do this without paying a licence fee to a company whose
business practices are anathema to me, for a product which I have no use
for and cannot resell. It's bad for me, bad for the shop owner and his
employees, and probably bad for those of his customers who may be smart
enough to use Linux but decide that they might as well use Windows
because they have to pay for it anyway.

As Rich pointed out, it's monopoly exclusion and it sucks.

And I'm not bitching, I'm ranting.

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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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