Linked by David Adams on Sat 30th Aug 2008 16:20 UTC, submitted by michuk
Compulsory Windows purchasing by way of PC bundles is one of the biggest hurtles to alternative OS adoption. Some people have been able to fight it: "Reading the Slashdot article about Dave Mitchell from Great Britain, who got a 47 pounds refund from Dell for returning his copy of Windows was an inspiration for me to check, if it is possible in Poland, too. This is my success story."
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2006-06-03
If you really want to push the debate on open source, and excercise your rights, everyone buying a computer to run linux should follow the example here.
Buy the computer then politely demand the refund. Microsoft are (or, at least, used to be, and were legally proved to be) using economic pressure to drive the bundling of Windows XP computers, consumers should use Economic pressure to register their dissatisfaction.
After all, by doing this, you are only excercising your rights, AND proving to the retailer that it is in their interests to give the consumer choice.
I am not a lawyer, but it would be worth investigating what your rights are when a retailer offers Linux boxes, but only at a higher price. Buying the cheaper Windows box AND THEN demanding a refund on the XP cost would really drive home the point.
Edited 2008-08-30 20:45 UTC