Fishing License

[Guy Fraser]

On Thu, 2006-11-05 at 14:46 -0400, Rickey Moore wrote:
> > You cannot even boot a new computer without agreeing to the EULA.  The 
> > service tech may do it in advance and you, as a user may never see it. 
> >   It has happened to me.
> 
> As I'm finally getting an 'almost' new machine, (I stay firmly a few
> cycles behind as I am cheap!) from a local shop, how do I go about
> making sure that:
> 
> 1.) ..I'm not paying MicroSoft a dime.
> 2.) ..no sneaky sneak by the dealer hiding MS somewhere in the cost of
> the system occurs.
> 3.) ..that I incur no nothng towards MS in this purchase.
> 4.) ..no smell of MS on the darddrive.
> 5.) ..that the cost of MS is backed out of this deal. 
> 6.) ..I can remain the nice charitable fellow I am, being Bill Gates
> free.
> 
> Any thoughts on the matter will be appreciated. Rick

Get the parts and put it together yourself.

I built a machine for about CA$ 500 a few months ago
with a decent processor and 1GB, 800MHz memory and a
300GB drive.

I could have bought a similar "bare bones" system 
without an OS for CA$ 600 or CA$ 700 with XP Home and
some other bundled SW.

If you have an old case you can save yourself a few
more bucks.