By Michael Kanellos
Published: Thursday 30 September 2004
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Nick
Location
London UK
Occupation
IT Specialist
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It happens in the UK too - for a while a high street vendor was selling Linux PCs very cheaply. I know a couple of friends who bought them, wiped them of Linux and installed a copy of Windows which they 'may or may not' have owned! I know they were popular with student populations for precisely the same reason.
I better Linux advocates were whooping at the sales figures, little knowing that their beloved OS was being wiped clean away by a copy of Windows!
Today I guess this phenomenon is largely eliminated by internet vendors selling hardware-only kit with no operating system, and you can get an OEM version of windows which is half the price of shrinkwrapped Windows in a box.
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