On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 05:44:49PM -0400, Ian Goldberg wrote:

They in fact give a "Re-installation CD", including SP1. They've got to present you with a EULA at *some* point, though. [Possibly after bootup.]

Likely on first boot when you are supposed register/activete and such.

But then we don't get to impress on Dell that they really should offer to sell machines without the "Microsoft tax" included automatically. I don't really like that I'm enriching Microsoft just because I bought some hardware.

Well Dell certainly isn't the company to deal with. They seem to sell Only intel hardware and only MS software. They wouldn't want to offend their suppliers and risk loosing their special deals. Their must be someone (other than IBM) that sell laptops without windows. Lennart Sorensen -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml