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Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 05:30:15 GMT
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Jon Kirwan wrote:

> I have removable hard drive bays ($13 USA each) and keep a Linux drive
> separate from my NT and Win98 drives.  But not very many people will
> do what you just suggested to their nice new computer just bought from
> CompUSA, Fry's, Dell, or Compaq.  Us programmer types, sure.  But not
> most people.  (I guarantee my neighbors would jokingly rather slit
> their own throats, than format their hard disk just after they bought
> their new computer.)

    Also, you pay for the OS that your machine is shipped with.  MS used to
say that they would give refunds to people who were shipped OS's without ever
using them.  But, they never actually did it.


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