On Sunday 07 January 2007 22:20, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
The point is, Toshiba does NOT treat the OS as separate from the hardware. You cannot get a refund on one _part_.
None of the vendors do that generally. Most of the low level execs aren't even aware of the fact that one can refuse the EULA and ask for the refund.
Here, read about this case involving Toshiba and a Redhat Linux user.
http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/toshiba.html
Its pretty old but if that guy could get a refund on the _bundled_ OS from Toshiba in 1998 then I guess in 2007 ( almost 10 years later ) we can get the refund from Toshiba in India. I know its never easy but we have to fight for it or atleast try it? If I knew this 3 years ago when I purchased my laptop, I would've definitely asked for no OS to be loaded. It would've saved me some money :P
This is a nice write up on how to get a refund amicably from any computer vendor who sells machines with Windoze bundled:
http://community.linux.com/community/07/01/03/227237.shtml?tid=12
Cheers!