[nzlug] 'MS Tax' versus Commerce Commission

[Simon]

On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 05:04 +0200, Martin Bähr wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 11:51:29AM +1200, Michael Field wrote:
> > Or if the US is too far and you want to buy from Australia -
> > http://www.vgcomputing.com.au/nsintro.html
> 
> hmm, in the OS selection vista seems to be free, and linux is $60 or $80
> extra (on a few random models i looked at). 
> so much for saving on the OS...

It appears that they buy the laptop with Vista Business already
installed... the OS cost seems to be related to the effort required to
install something else.

Most are $60, the likes of debian and gentoo are $80 and $90 if you sent
them your own. (I assume that's what they mean by "user supplied OS".)