[Haifux] Successful Windows Vista refund!!

[Dan Shimshoni]

Zvi,

  - You are our Open Source hero of the week (or maybe of the year,
or maybe decade!).

Congratulations!  I salute you!

  - I hereby call to anyone who bought a laptop without operating
system on it or with only Linux on it
to  tell his/her story in this mailing list. I also call every one who
encounter a refusal from stores to
sell a laptop without an operating system on it also to tell here
his/her  story.

I also call every blogger/twitter/facebook fan on earth , who is (even
a really little bit of) an Open Source oriented, to post a link to
this news item with a short explanation and a salute.

The fight has only begun!

Dan



On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:
> Zvi,
>
> I salute you for the effort you took for the grater good!
>
> Yashar Koach!
>
> As for Israeli shops selling Laptops with pre-installed Linux - I remember a
> guy at the last August Penguin (2008) selling said Laptops by the staircase.
>
> I can't remember the name but I know he has a web site...
>
> Can any of you remember ?
>
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> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 01:04, sara fink <sara.fink at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Oh, well, Dell
>>> Israel are likely to say something like, "Since you are not running
>>> Windows your warranty is void," and then one would have to go through a
>>> small claims court again, attaching the email exchange and the refund
>>> confirmation to the suit...
>>
>> I'd like to comment on this. I have a fujitsu siemens. I installed linux
>> and  the laptop was many times at repair. Their mode of operation was to
>> pull out my hd, insert a hd with windows, check, repair hardware and insert
>> back my hd.
>>
>> So this scheme can work for every one. They usually say at the lab,
>> backup, etc. You always can claim that you don't ask them to repair the os,
>> but only the hardware. They have their test disk which checks everything,
>> independent of the os. And as last point, ask them where it's written that
>> you have warranty only if you have windows. A lawyer won't write such a
>> thing in these agreements/eula.
>>
>
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