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

[DaZZa <dazza@nospam.zip.com.au>]

On Tue, 30 May 2000, Jon Biddell wrote:

> 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.

{chuckle} Gateway keeps that up, and they're gonna go broke.

I avoided a Gateway laptop for a combination of circumstances which
included exactly the point you were making - they wouldn't sell it to me
without an OS {add the fact that they had a 20 WORKING day delay for
delivery}.

So that's about $13000 they've missed out on in the last few months.

DaZZa

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