How to make your computers cheaper

[alecjw]

Here's a devious plan...

Microshaft have a system whereby if you ship computers with windoze peinstalled, they give you cheap hardware, right?

So ship computers with windoze preinstalled...

Make a 1GB FAT16 partiton on the disks and the rest of the disk ext3. Install windoze 95 or earlier on the FAT16 partition, so that it is cheaper (an uses less space). Install Ubuntu as usual on the ext3 partition. As soon as Ubuntu boots, it should format the FAT16 partition to swap. Simple. You get the cheap windoze harware, but no windoze.;)

[Ptero-4]

Nice trick Alec. Unfortunatelly it only works on some computers (those without TCPA hardware or the TCPA hardware custom-made for System76 computers). In any computer not matching these criteria the trick won't work at all.

[Shay Stephens]

Not devious at all considering that by allowing Microsoft to dictate anything at all, you give up too many freedoms and then you are back at square one. Controlled by them and their ever contracting grip.

No. Kick them out, and give them nothing with which to gain even a finger hold over you.