Re: Not always joking, it seems

In article <fpshcm$smj$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Keith F. Lynch <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Marcus L. Rowland <forgottenfutures@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> You're always at liberty to wipe the hard disk and start from
>> scratch ...
>
>Sure.  They don't care whether you keep or delete Windows, just so
>long as you pay for it.  This is the so-called "Microsoft tax," which
>buyers pay on nearly all computers.

Actually, it appears that the amount Dell gets for shovelware (the
advertising crap it loads on new user computers by the shovelful) more
than pays for the Windoze license.

So Windoze is effectively cheaper than free, ad-sup****ted.

Seth