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When you buy a car, do you also have to buy a stock of petrol from the same delear? NO.
When you buy a PC, do you also have to buy an operating system you do not need? NO.
So what are legislators around the world waiting for to FORCE hardware manufacturers to sell their stuff without any OS attached? These manufacturers whould be happy to be forced by the law, too. The only unhappy company would be Micro$oft; oh pure Bill, you would be a bit sad for that... but who cares? Who cares about parasites that steal money from everyone? ...Legislators, European Union, future US president, WAKE UP, it all depends on you!

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Albeit it is a huge hassle, you can still return your windows license. Obviously a pre-installed and well-tailored Linux distribution would be far superiour. But since Lenovo always favoured SuSE anyhow, and most users reinstalled their distribution of choice afterwards, it's not worthy of that much fuss.

It's probably just a cost saving thing for them, mixed with too few customer requests. They'll preinstall Ubuntu by 2010 again... I'm betting two T60s on that.

And then, returning your windows license makes a vastly stronger expression of your customer wishes. I'd go that route again anyhow.

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