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From: brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:02:31 -0500
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Paul Cartwright wrote:
> As Niv Lilian reports at Ynet News, Haifa's Zvi Devir just preferred to run 
> Linux rather than the pre-installed Windows on his newly bought Dell 
> computer, and didn't want to pay for the unwanted Windows system. Now Devir 
> has prevailed, after a fight in Israeli small-claims court, to become the 
> first Israeli to obtain a Windows refund (also in Hebrew), winning the $137 
> that Windows added to the cost of his machine and escaping the nondisclosure 
> agreement that Dell had wanted him to abide by as a condition. Perhaps others 
> will follow his lead.
Good for him. In the US we have an even better option: buy one with 
linux to begin with.

http://polibyte.com/blog/buying_a_dell_without_windows

-Brian

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