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On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 07:17:30PM +0000, Mick wrote |
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> TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax on |
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> all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this particular laptop. |
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Shhhhhhh... it's not a tax; it's actually. The reason that so many |
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OEMs load up their new machines with "craplets" is because they get paid |
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good money by the publishers of these apps to load them on. That in |
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turn reduces the price of a PC by more than what an OEM Windows licence |
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costs. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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