Dell To Offer Windows-Less PCs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday August 14, 2002 @01:08AM from the backdoor-in-the-fine-print dept.

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."

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Re:Congratulations to Dell by MaxVlast · 2002-08-14 01:33 · Score: 1, Offtopic

How many people out there say things like "gee, I hate windows/MS, but I use Visual Studio because I haven't figured out how to install Linux," or "Windows sucks, but I keep a copy on all of my PCs because there aren't any games for Linux."

If you're going to take standpoint, take it. Equivocating and buying/pirating/using Windows anyway is simply wimpy. If you honestly think that Microsoft is evil and awful, then how can you justify fundamental betrayal of your position?

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