Windows Refund day - reaction

[Sheldon Dubrowin]

This is the main reason why I usually try to put my own machines together.
I get the parts I want and more importantly the OS I want. 8)  No
Micro$oft tax included.

	Shel

On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 11:43:34AM -0500, Jerry A Clabaugh wrote:
> Windows refund day, Feb 15 (Monday), has been generating an amazing
> amount of hostility on feed-back news sites.  Ziff-Davis ran
> a story with a talk-back section,
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2189833,00.html -
> I'm just amazed at the anger and lack of comprehension in most
> of the posts there.  Just today there was a response at LinuxToday
> to an article (http://linuxtoday.com/stories/2985_flat.html)
> which was disturbingly angry.
> 
> To me it all seems simple and obvious - you can't buy a pre-assembled
> Intel-based consumer-level machine without paying money to 
> Microsoft, whether you want or intend to use any Microsoft products.
> Linux users are the ones most concerned with this, because they
> are probably the largest segment of people for whom this is a
> problem.  But even some NT users don't want to have to pay for
> Win98 when they don't intend to use it.  
> 
> Why is there such an angry reaction?

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