"James E. Morrow" <jamesemorrow@email.com> wrote in message
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> In article <12m39hhgnj1ei9b@corp.supernews.com>,
> my@ddress.is.invalid
> says...
>
> <snip>
>
>> Same with Compaq. I bought a laptop and it had a TON of wild
>> tangent
>> games and such. I almost hate buying a new computer anymore because
>> of
>> all the crap they put on it. You would think that it should fall
>> under
>> some kind of antispam law or something. When I buy a computer I
>> want two
>> things, the computer and the OS. I think someone (Dell, sony, HP or
>> some
>> other big player) should sell a computer with nothing on it and
>> sell the
>> OS separate. IMHO
>>
>>
>
> Great Idea. But Microsoft wouldn't allow that. The box and the OS
> must
> be mated for registration purposes. So you really can't buy a
> computer
> without an operating system.

Certainly you can. That does have legal justification. In fact that
was one of the things Microsoft got their ass in a crack about a few
years ago. They were charging Dell for an OS on every computer Dell
built, whether it actuall shipped with Windows or not.

cmsix

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