[ale] stupid pricing games

[Jim Kinney]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Jim Kinney<jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Looking for a new laptop for my wife. Dell has FreeDos option on
> Latitude systems. Inspiron is home user and the all come with some
> perversion of vista.

So I finally ordered the Dell Inspiron 15N with Ubuntu. Dell just
called to verify the order and tried to "upsell" me to Windows Vista
Home Basic so I could get a coupon for a free upgrade to Windows 7.

I had fun explaining that I fix windows problems with fdisk and didn't
see a reason to purchase a preinstalled virus.

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James P. Kinney III
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