[TriLUG] Buying a laptop with no Microsoft tax?

[Vestal, Roy L.]

Go read and see if you can get your money back. If so, please let us know
how you did it so we can too.

http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/07/028239&mode=thread&tid=9

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Mink [mailto:kmink at hotpop.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 5:17 PM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Buying a laptop with no Microsoft tax?


On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 16:51, John Beimler wrote:
> Folks, wake up. According to Apple's 10-K filing with the SEC, 
> Microsoft owns at least "150,000 shares of Apple Series A nonvoting 
> convertible preferred stock("preferred stock")".  They are directly 
> profiting from any purchase at the Apple store, and especially if you 
> pony up your cash for Office X.
> 
> Any PC you buy, part of the money is going to Microsoft somehow, some 
> way, just deal.
> 

When I went looking for a laptop about a year ago I could not find a Linux
laptop that I could afford. I went with a cheap HP with XP Home. I don't use
the XP, I just use RedHat on it. Sure, MS gets their tax out of me, but
that's all they'll ever get.

I make myself feel good about it by using OpenOffice instead MS Office.

Ken

> Peace.
> 
> john
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