Re: [tlug] linux netbooks?

[Francois Cartegnie <fcartegnie@example.com>]

Le samedi 1 novembre 2008, Scott Robbins a écrit :
> The short answer (which I should have given at the beginning) is that in
> the US at least, one is usually better off buying the Windows version.
> Apparently, in an effort to compete, bully, or whatever, the MS O/S cost
> is minimal.  I suspect that if I did get into the fight to have the MS
> tax refunded, it would only come to $15-$20 USD.

As the price is not written before the buy, a refund through court would get 
you the OEM box retail price.  If you go through them, they'll want to pay a 
ridiculous price to avoid a refund. That's why Microsoft forces OEM retailers 
(through oem retail programs) to never mention any software price. No price, 
no refund. If most of people knew the real price before buying, they would 
reconsider their buy.
Then regarding Asus eee and it's other clones: Xandros doesn't provide their 
Linux for free ! If the XP version is 40USD more, then it's 40USD more than 
Xandros, which ends up with a 40~80USD XP.

AFAIK, only notebooks hardware shipped from HP with FreeDos is really 0 cost,
but you'll never get the same hardware config as the windows ones, because you 
would be able to guess the real price of windows...

That's why refund fights aims to get price first, and the possibility to buy 
hardware, just hardware. ~~> racketware.info

If you want an eee right now, consider buying from US or Europe. Linux eees 
(black ones) are cheap, and japan yen is really strong these days.