Dell To Offer Windows-Less PCs 588
An anonymous reader submits: "As a follow-up to the Slashdot story Dell No Longer Selling Systems w/o Microsoft OS, News.com is reporting that Dell will sell systems without Windows. Microsoft's new licensing terms stipulate they can't sell PC's without an OS (hence the removal of the NoOS option), so Dell will be offering FreeDOS as an option for some computers. It will come with the computer, but not installed, so that users may install any other OS that they wish. It's a very creative interpretation of Microsoft's licensing terms, and one I imagine Microsoft didn't have in mind."
Wonder how many Lawyers it took (Score:2, Funny)
What we'll be hearing... (Score:1, Funny)
Dell should take the moral high ground here. (Score:5, Funny)
This interpretation of their license agreement can only lead to more money for the lawyers!
Re:Go Dell! (Score:4, Funny)
Bill Gates.
Re:Two key points from the article (Score:2, Funny)
it's easy to figure out the real value of windows
Re:Go Dell! (Score:3, Funny)
I saw your message with .sig attached:
Bill Gates.
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-- He's dead, Jim.
If only!
(OK, I don't really wish him dead. I just wish him and every other Microsoft exec and lawyer to retire to a quiet life of recreation and contemplation, out of the public eye and completely away from the computer industry.)
-Rob
Re:The obvious move (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The obvious move (Score:2, Funny)
FreeDOS is GPL'd!!! That's REALLY showin it to MS!!
Re:Wonder how many Lawyers it took (Score:2, Funny)
FreeDOS! (Score:3, Funny)
Ha! Of all the systems they could have shipped, especially to include Linux and the *BSDs they picked FreeDOS. That's just funny. Okay, the dumb little Dell kid just got a slight bit more tolerable in my mind.
Re:Go Dell! (Score:5, Funny)
Why shouldn't the same hold true for MS? If they've bought the Justice Dept, then they can use it as they wish.
Is a government agency open-source or GPL?
Re:Go Dell! (Score:2, Funny)
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I'm pretty sure that you mean Godzilla... Or did you say Napoleon to avoid being sued by the people who just went after Davezilla?
Must buy PC (Score:3, Funny)
Re:So the real question is... (Score:3, Funny)
MS: "We're not guilty of evil things."
Court: "Yes, you are. Change stuff."
MS: "OK, we'll change stuff in such a way that nothing changes."
Court: "OK, you have until the end of time to make said changes. We'll keep pretending to argue so lawyers can make more money."
Lawyers: "Yay!"