They also wouldn't have had to pay if they'd kept around the original CD and the key for the OS.
Do generic manufacturers like Dell still ship CDs for free? I've seen a couple of Dell machines in the past few years (one I purchased and two of friends) that didn't have CDs. They did have some type of restore partition or some-such on the HD, but if you borked your drive, you were done.
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