RE: [SLUG] Recommendations - Laptop / Notebook Running Linux (RH62)

["Aravind Naidu" <aravind.naidu@nospam.software-assoc.com>]

Good on you !!!!

>
> Did you purchase this with EvilWare and blow it away, or with
> Linux (or no
> OS ?)
>
> I was about to plonk down a sizable slab of discretionary income for a
> Gateway 9300XLS (15.3" screen, 18Gb HD, 256Mb RAM) and had an
> argument with
> them about the old Windows licencing agreement - their comment was that
> it's too hard, and removing Windows would only drop $10 off the price
> because of their licencing agreement with TSOS (The Spawn Of Satan).
>
> I was, on a matter of principle and because I refused to accept
> the licence
> agreement, prepared to accept the miniscule reduction in price, but the
> Gateway store at Castle Hill wouldn't hear of it. When I told them that
> they had just blown an $8k+ sale (and even showed them the $$$ to
> prove it
> !!), they had the hide to say "... your attitude is wrong - all you Linux
> nuts are the same, you want something for nothing".. How he reached that
> conclusion is still a mystery.
>
> Jon

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