Effectively, all the crap you have to pay them not to install subsidizes your Windows tax. I'm with you in principle, but if they were willing to sell computers with no OS on them, they wouldn't be cheaper.
1. I wasn't really concerned about price. I don't think the original poster is either.
2. I don't give a rats ass why things are the way they are. (I know why.) I'm the consumer, dammit. And this is my cathartic whiny-complaining thread, dammit.
