[plug] HP to ship the NX5000 (laptop) with SUSE pre-installed.

Michael Holland myk at westnet.com.au
Thu Aug 5 09:19:39 WST 2004


On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Senectus . wrote:

> For those on the hunt for "MS tax" free and linux supported laptop.

Tax free? I believe the Linux version costs the same as the XP-home
version. Is that because MS still charges for OEM licensing on a
per-box-shipped basis ? ie part of your money still goes to Microsoft.
Have any of the court cases managed to change that?

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