[Tfug] Blogger gets $200 check from HP for declining Vista's EULA

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

Unconfirmed ... but $200 back on a $600 laptop seems like a LOT to me.

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Blogger gets $200 check from HP for declining Vista's EULA
    Blogger uncle_benji went over to Best Buy and purchased an HP dv6815nr for 
    $599.99 plus tax. When he saw the Windows Vista EULA and the HP EULA, he 
    decided he wanted to move to Linux. He wasn't happy that there wasn't an 
    option to decline the EULA, but didn't take his revenge on Microsoft by 
    just grabbing one of the many Linux distro install discs. Nope, first 
    things first: this user decided to call HP and demand a refund for 
    Microsoft's latest operating system. After all, Microsoft's EULA does say 
    to contact the manufacturer if the user does not agree with it. This user 
    simply took it a step further and made sure that he was not paying for 
    something he wasn't going to use.

    After many phone calls, insistence from HP representatives that it does 
    not support Linux (drivers and so on), suggestions to contact Microsoft 
    instead or to choose another laptop, many e-mails back and forth, a letter 
    to the CEO Mark Hurd, and months of waiting, uncle_benji received a check 
    in the mail. The check was for $200, addressed from HP. 
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Slightly more here w/ links to the blog:
http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2008/07/21/blogger-gets-200-
check-from-hp-for-declining-vistas-eula
http://preview.tinyurl.com/62eyyz