Fishing License

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 15:57, Guy Fraser wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-05 at 14:46 -0400, Rickey Moore wrote:
> > > You cannot even boot a new computer without agreeing to the EULA.  The 
> > > service tech may do it in advance and you, as a user may never see it. 
> > >   It has happened to me.
> > 
> > As I'm finally getting an 'almost' new machine, (I stay firmly a few
> > cycles behind as I am cheap!) from a local shop, how do I go about
> > making sure that:
> > 
> > 1.) ..I'm not paying MicroSoft a dime.
> > 2.) ..no sneaky sneak by the dealer hiding MS somewhere in the cost of
> > the system occurs.
> > 3.) ..that I incur no nothng towards MS in this purchase.
> > 4.) ..no smell of MS on the darddrive.
> > 5.) ..that the cost of MS is backed out of this deal. 
> > 6.) ..I can remain the nice charitable fellow I am, being Bill Gates
> > free.
> > 
> > Any thoughts on the matter will be appreciated. Rick
> 
> Get the parts and put it together yourself.

Or if you are doing something substantial, I doubt if
these guys pay anything to MS: http://www.penguincomputing.com.

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  Les Mikesell
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