Arthur S. Alexion on Fri, 10 Jan 2003 13:50:31 -0500 |
One reason to fight for refunds is to increase the cost for companies to sign agreements with MS to supply a copy of windows with every CPU sold -- whether the end user wants it or not. On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 15:00, Paul wrote: > Interesting. Too bad it's so difficult to get what's promised in writing! > > When it comes to buying computers, instead of trying to get refunds we > could just build or shop for PCs without the M$ tax. No, I do believe > big companies should honor their agreements, and that the fight for > refunds is hornorable, but there are alternatives. > > > Arthur S. Alexion wrote: > > >http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT8645822376.html > > > >Interesting article by a Sand Diego lawyer and LUG member who tells how > >he forced Compaq to refund the portion of his new computer price that > >was attributable to MS Win. > > > >Straight forward and accurate, legally. He urges others to do it on > >1/23/03. > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Arthur S. Alexion <arthur@alexion.com> Arthur S. Alexion LLC _________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug
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