Re: MIDRANGE-L Digest V2 #1858

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please explain, how has he not paid for it?  He bought the
used box, now owns the hardware, right?

Regards,

Jim Langston

Jon.Paris@halinfo.it wrote:

>  >>>  So, the customer is paying for hardware that he has, but cannot use it.
>
> And this is where you miss the point Leif.
>
> The customer may have the hardware but he _hasn't_ paid for it. Although it 
>may
> be frustrating to think that you have a feature that you can't use you should
> take comfort in one very simple fact.  If they were not able to offer a range 
>of
> models (and therefore prices) _without_ some form of software and/or hardware
> slugging then _all_ of the models would cost more. This is not a possibility 
>but
> a certainty.
>
> I think practices such as my having to pay for Win98 on a new PC when I want 
>to
> run Linux are far more unfair.

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