Re: Thanks for the great system / installation successfull report

["Damon L. Chesser" <damon@damtek.com>]

Ivan Glushkov wrote:
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> Subject: Re: Thanks for the great system / installation successfull report
> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:00:46 +0100
> From: Embrik Kaslegard <embrik_leifsson@yahoo.no>
> To: Ivan Glushkov <glushkov@mail.desy.de>
> References: <47D90281.70906@yahoo.co.uk>
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> Ivan Glushkov wrote:
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> > Luis Motta Campos wrote:
> >   
> >     
> > > Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> > >       
> > > > Le 13 mars 08 à 11:31, Luis Motta Campos a écrit :
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> > > >         
> > > > >   I would like to report a big success here. I recently got a HP 6710b
> > > > > laptop and (as usual) didn't agreed with the Windows License terms and
> > > > > conditions (so I can send it back and get the license money).
> > > > >         
> > > > >           
> > > > Are you being serious about getting your money back? Are you successful
> > > > in it in the UK?
> > > >       
> > > >         
> > > I don't  know about the UK. I sent them back my licenses in the
> > > Netherlands, where I live now. I told them in a very formal letter that
> > > I didn't agreed about the terms and conditions, and, as I never used the
> > > licenses (it was a new computer) I got my money back.
> > >       
> > > I recommend everybody to at least try. :) It's not possible that the
> > > only way to buy computers is swallowing licenses we will not use.
> > >       
> > Hey, that's a good news!
> >
> > did anybody in Germany succeeded to do that? I am planning to buy a new
> > laptop, and this information is vital for me..
> >
> > 	Cheers,
> > 	Ivan
> >
> >     
>
> Wow. This is pioneering :-) How did you do this? Why don't you just give
> us the copy of your letter? I guess you have found a way in using the
> complicated lisence ageement in our favour. I will send some letters as
> well. I've got 125 lisences which I don't want to use :-)
>
> Br
> Embrik
> Hemsedal
>
> I guess that was incidentally sent personally to me.
>
> 	Cheers,
> 	Ivan
>
> P.S.: Actually it is not pioneering at all. Google it. I read something
> similar in slashdot long time ago, but that was in Australia. That's the
> first case I hear about in EU.
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While I don't know of anybody personally in the USA who has done this, I 
do personally know of a Dutch who did it:

http://blog.danieldk.org/

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Damon L. Chesser
damon@damtek.com