[TriLUG] Buying a laptop with no Microsoft tax?

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 18:14, Justin Johnson wrote:
> > Anything you buy, part of the money is going to Microsoft somehow, some
> > way, just deal.
> 
> Just to play devil's advocate here....
> 
> So how does the cash spent for a boxed set of Red Hat or Mandrake get to
> Redmond?

Well, Red Hat probably has some Windows boxes somewhere, for testing
things like Samba, or for comparison benchmarking.  And they might have
a Microsoft mouse or two.  So it's entirely possible that they've paid a
small amount of money to Microsoft somehow, although it would be almost
unmeasurable divided among the $39.95 boxed sets.

--Jeremy