Thread: What's the best Handheld gnu/linux machine for 2016?
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2016-03-03 , 14:34
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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
I can't share this concern nor worry. Especially since the metrics for this is based in the millions and unfortunately the few that think as such make up not even a percent. Sad case, more should care - but I choose apathy.
Those millions you're speaking of is nothing else than the sum of a lot of single people. I chose not to be one of them. Feel free to make a different choice!

Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
I remember back in 2010 - the process was not hard. You just had to ask for a Dell with the FreeDOS option (available since 2006 or so) and then your equipment would be registered differently in their system. That's how I did it when I was still doing global IT for a Fortune 500 company.
When I tried the same thing with one device Dell told me, that there is no option in their software to unbundle the Windows license from the machine. They even offered me a discount for swallowing the licence, which I refused.
The case was settled at this point for me, but a week later the sales person got back to me, told me that he went to his superior who was somehow able to cheat the software.
In the end I got a device with FreeDOS and a hungarian Windows license on my bill, which wasn't shipped because it wasn't available in Germany.
 

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