[nylug-talk] Dell selling linux desktops

[Henning Follmann]

On May 25, 2007, at 3:06 PM, Ron Guerin wrote:

> alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
>> On Thu, 24 May 2007, Steven Lembark wrote:
>>
>>> alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
>>>> http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/05/24/15994.aspx
>>>> http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/ubuntu? 
>>>> c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
>>>>
>>>> Eat your heart out, Jay!
>>> Now all we have to do is convince them to sell the things withOUT  
>>> any
>>> O/S at all.
>> Like haysus said, "there's no pleasing some people".
>
> Well I learned something new today.  In Germany, it's apparently  
> illegal
> to sell a PC without an OS. (Henning, you here?)  So that probably
> explains why Dell feels compelled to toss in a copy of FreeDOS with
> their desktop systems without Windows (or Ubuntu).
>
> - Ron

I didn't follow that thing. At some point there were some ridiculous  
rules around selling a PC. But as far as I can remember it was  
illegal to resell a computer when it was bought with an OS on it  
(like on eBay).
German bureaucracy is not graspable for a human being with a sane mind.
But for dell, they are not selling any PC without windows in Germany.  
The linux offer is US only.


Henning

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