[nylug-talk] How to get a Windows tax refund

[Jay Sulzberger]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Kevin Mark wrote:

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> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 03:52:47AM -0500, Jay Sulzberger wrote:
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>> On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
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>>> On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Jay Sulzberger wrote:
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>>>> Alex, let us then attempt to buy one, or evn a few such fine machines
>>>> from Dell.
>>> I have 50 of those. (Dell Optiplex 170LN). There's no rocket science
>>> involved in buying them...
>>>
>>> -alex
>>
>> Could I order a laptop by just calling Dell and saying "Please
>> don't put any OS on the laptop and also do not charge me for a
>> Microsoft OS."?
>>
>> oo--JS.
> Hi Jay,
> that's what I was thinking! It would save both Dell and you the trouble.
> Cost:
> tech support call cost
> tech support worker cost
> your phone call cost and time and irateness
> check refund issuing cost
> OS imaging cost
> OEM OS cost
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> Approx. Cost of full OS?
> Cheers,
> Kev

Yes.  The antitrust action, now decided against Microsoft, was
aimed at stopping Microsoft and Dell from agreeing to keep other
OSes off Dell computers.  This has now been forgotten, by both
the court, and many people who run free software.  But Microsoft
has not forgotten, and that is why Microsoft will pay thousands
of dollars per incident to stop buyers of home machines from
getting a refund.

The fifty dollars given back in the few refund cases we have won
is not the money at issue: rather the billions of dollars paid
for copies of Microsoft Jumbo Office Suites is the issue.  If
people who buy home computers learn that they can run a better
operating system, then they will run the better operating system,
and sales of Microsoft Jumbo Office Suite will fall.

oo--JS.



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