[nzlug] recondition laptop windows licence revisited

[Simon Bridge]

On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 18:20 +1300, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> > 
> > I think you cannot do this with vista (anybody) and I havn't seen such a
> > tool on my XP machine.
> > 
> Acer has such a tool for XP on their laptops. One of the reasons that it 
> is done that way is so that 'third parties' (eg Acer) can pay MS a lot 
> of money to have their software included in the 'install media'.

Acer have recently announced that they will be re-engineering their
entire range to provide out-of-the-box support for Open Source and
Linux... 
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/tsearch/pre+ubuntu.htm

oh wait... no...
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%
20/2007/07/31/acer-disses-ubuntu-in-the-uk/

...it's the New Year and I'm prone to slip between realities a bit...
pretend I didn't say that... this Quadrupel is actually quite gurd..