On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 04:48 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > Plus, it would be great to approach Acer about a Windows license refund. :) > > http://linux.vandeplas.com/acer/winrefund.htm While such notions have appealed to me, in the past. Having seen the kerfuffle that you'd have to go through, and the pittance of a refund that you'll get back, by reading various blogs about it, I don't think it's worth the waste of your time. Seriously, how long do you want to spend on phone calls and letter writing, to get back a measly $30 or so? I'm not, particularly, a "time is money" person. But it'd be a tedious and stressful thing to go through. I'd be more inclined if you got a substantial refund, such as how much you'd have to pay to buy Windows, by itself, over the counter. Or amused, if someone managed to knock the retail price down to match the refund price. Years ago, I was talking to a shopkeeper about Windows pricing, and he said as far as he was concerned that it ought to sell for $50, because that was all he thought it was worth, taking into consideration its crappiness, and everything you went through to use it (buying antivirus, all the maintenance you had to do, or get someone else to do, and all the risks that an infection exposed you to). At the time, buying Windows, here, would set you back a few hundred dollars to buy the OS, outright (*). Upgrade versions were a bit cheaper. And those were Windows-only install discs, not Windows plus applications (like we get with a Fedora OS *and* installations disc). Windows plus applications discs were seriously expensive, or only bundled with new computers. * When XP was newish, a stand-alone install packaged retailed at over $700. I couldn't believe it when I saw it. Then, on top of that, buying an Office package was a similar price. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
