BYO or manufactured?

[John (EBo) David]

dennisk@sahuaro.f2s.com wrote:
> 
> Quoting "John (EBo) David" <ebo@leml.la.asu.edu>:
> 
> > Dennis Kibbe wrote:
> > >
> > > And don't forget when you buy a pre-built computer you are paying the evil
> > M$ tax!
> >
> > speaking of which...  Isn't there some way to take the OS off of the
> > computer and request that M$ pay you back?  A *long* time ago a budy of
> > mine did this, but I do not remember the details.
> >
> >   EBo --
> 
> Yes, it's possible, but not easy according to some of the stories I've read on
> the net. I searched the M$ site for the Win XP EULA but didn't find it. Next
> time I'm in CompUSA I'm bring a floppy. I understand it's on the hard drive
> under the windows/system32 folder EULA.TXT.

cool...  that would be an interesting thing to post to the net ;-)

Just imagine this -- the schools that get audited by M$ convert to Linux
and send Bill a bill  ;-)

would be a wonderful way to pay for the conversion...

  EBo --