[Linux-bruxelles] RE: FW: demande d'offre portables inspiron

[eric Hanuise]

This is something I understand better :-)

It is no problem to me if you quote the full price and state in an addendum 
the difference for the OS-less system.
(or state in the quote the price of the oem OS, which is the difference 
anyway).

I continued researching the matter over the Internet, and found this 
relevant excerpt of the belgian
"loi sur les pratiques du commerce et la protection du consommateur du 14 
juillet 1991" :

Art.  54. Il y a offre conjointe au sens du présent article, lorsque
l'acquisition, gratuite ou non, de produits, de services, de tous autres
avantages, ou de titres permettant de les acquérir, est liée à
l'acquisition d'autres produits ou services, même identiques.
   Sauf les exceptions précisées ci-après, toute offre conjointe au
consommateur effectuée par un vendeur est interdite. Est également
interdite toute offre conjointe au consommateur effectuée par plusieurs
vendeurs agissant dans une unité d'intention.

As a freelance consultant in computing, my clients happen to request that I 
provide them with computers (servers, workstations and laptops), running 
Linux Debian as operating system.
I am furthermore active in the local community, which, as you may expect, 
pays attention to this matter.
And last but not least, as you may know the belgian consumer magazine 'test 
achats' will feature an article specifically about laptop computers in 
belgium in their march issue.

I really would like to find myself in the position of recommending dell 
around me as a truly linux-friendly company, and generally give you 'good 
press'. Please help me to do so :-)

At 12:13 17/02/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Dear Sir
>
>With technical, i ment the way we put the quote in our system, not in the
>plant.
>sofie
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Eric Hanuise [mailto:ehanuise at fantasybel.net]
>Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 14:54
>To: Sofie_Geirnaert at exchange.dell.com
>Subject: RE: FW: demande d'offre portables inspiron
>
>
>At 07:42 17/02/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> >Dear Sir
> >
> >
> >I hope that you also believe that we want to sell you our great laptops,
>but
> >as mentioned before, technically we can't make a quote without OS.
> >Sofie
>
>could you by any chance elaborate on the _technical_ reasons that prevent
>you from maquing an os-less quote ?
>The laptops come from dell, and the OEM OS'es are bought by dell from
>Microsoft, so dell obviously has the quotes for both the os-less laptop and
>the oem license.
>
>Furthermore the oem license consists in
>- a cd-rom (or a ghost image on the hard disk)
>- a license sticker containing the activation key number for that license.
>
>so to technically 'remove' the license from the laptop all that is needed
>is to transfer the license sticker to another laptop, and not include the
>windows CD.
>(if the software is on an image on te hard disk you don't even need to
>reformt the hard disk as long as no license number/sticker is provider, it
>will be useless.)
>
>I really would like to know what the technical reasons are ?

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