Slashdot Mirror
Slow And Steady Leads To Windows Refund Success
linuxwrangler writes "By proceeding carefully, documenting everything, being persistent and keeping his cool, Steve Oualline was awarded a $199 refund for his unused copy of Microsoft Windows XP. See his Linux Journal howto for the details. Hopefully this is the first of many victories."
That sounds like a lot of work for $199. Are we that desperate for money?
If this is intended as a protest of some sort, I can't see what effect it will have. I know few people who run Linux/BSD and don't also dual-boot Windows occasionally, and fewer who will proceed carefully, document everything, be persistent and keep their cool just to accomplish something as seemingly insignificant as getting a $199 refund.
What about the GNAA?
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
Well you can pay Microsoft today for windows, or you can wait and pay SCO tomorrow for Linux ;)
Actually, I have better things to do with my time.
"I'm going to sue you because I bought a computer that had Windows installed on it."
I've never heard anything so ludicrous in my life. And it's clearly nonsense too, the retail copy of XP is worth $199, the OEM copy is probably not worth a fraction of that. If you get a machine with a copy of winxp on it, you probably got XP a good deal cheaper than if you'd bought it in the store, so you can't win a claim of more than the value of the OEM version of Windows XP, which ain't $199.
A remarkably dull article about a remarkably dull man who's prepared to do this sort of thing and tell the world about it in a million pages of text. On the other hand I felt the need to comment, so it can't have been that dull.