[PLUG] XP or Vista?

[Eric Wilhelm]

# from Paul Heinlein
# on Saturday 17 February 2007 08:02 am:

>The Dell 'n' series ships with FreeDOS, to be sure (and I just love
>getting a printed copy of the GPL from Dell in the box!), but the
>machines aren't really any less expensive than those shipping with the
>bottom-rung version of whatever Windows release Dell is hawking at the
>moment.

Is this because windows is basically free beer for them?  We all know 
the OEM's don't pay retail for Windows, but how much is it?  $5?

--Eric
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