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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] purchasing a dell laptop
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 13:06:36
Message-Id: 20150625140621.2933fa34@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] purchasing a dell laptop by Mick
1 On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 12:09:03 +0100, Mick wrote:
2
3 > I would seek a refund for the MSWindows OS that it comes preinstalled
4 > with. (This is a blatant case of software bundling with their products
5 > and the refusal to cough up a refund when requested remains
6 > incompatible with European Directive 2005/29/EC. Court test cases in
7 > France and Belgium have validated this and big boys like Dell are now
8 > more cautious when confronted by informed consumers assertively
9 > requesting refunds.)
10
11 The XPS 13 at least is available as a "Developer Edition" that comes with
12 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS instead of Windows.
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16 Neil Bothwick
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18 Actually, Microsoft is sort of a mixture between the Borg and the Ferengi.

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Re: [gentoo-user] purchasing a dell laptop Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] purchasing a dell laptop gottlieb@×××.edu