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

[Senectus .]

> 
> What is "dos tax" ? I know hard drive can be bundled with OEM windows, but
> that was never forced. Was it?
> 
Once apon a time it was not legal for a hard drive manufacturer to
ship a hard drive without an OS on it.
Back then the cheapest and best known OS was MSDOS.
EVERY hard drive in the world was sold with a copy of MSDOS on it and
a tithe paid to MS.

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