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Dell Customer Gets Windows Refund

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the show-us-the-check-dave dept.

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)."

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  1. Payments for pirates! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yarrrrg! Now all those scurvy seadogs who will, of course, be running pirates copies of Windows on their... cough cough "linux" haha cough cough... computers can get subsidized by the computer vendors!

    Shiver me timbers! It's fun stealing other work, especially when you have an entire website dedicate to bashing them!

  2. Re:Return on Investment? by dan828 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'm very glad to live in a country with extremely strict firearms laws, in fact I don't think I know a single person who owns a gun.

    I know several people with guns all of which have been legally acquired. None of these law-abiding gun owners have ever used them to commit a crime or shot at any people. It's the people that acquire them illegally that do that, so what you end up with is removing the guns from the hands of the responsible and law-abiding while really not effecting the illegal trade and use of firearms. Seems pretty pointless.