Dell Customer Gets Windows Refund
scottv67 writes "Dell today gave freelance programmer and sysadmin Dave Mitchell, of Sheffield, UK, a refund of 47 pounds ($89) for the unused copy of Microsoft Windows XP Home SP2 bundled with his new Dell Inspiron 640m laptop, Mitchell says. Dell also refunded the tax, for a total of £55.23 ($105)."
read up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost
in micro-economics your free time should be considerided equally as valuable as your work time. otherwise you would take on more hours, or more jobs until the value of your free time=value of your work time. granted in the US we have as a society setup the 40 hours work week instead of each individual reaching their own balance.
So just because you have no life, and theirfore your free time isn't worth anything, doesn't mean that applies to the rest of us.