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New Dell Clickthrough Software License
Petrol writes "I just read that Dell is installing a new mandatory click-through software license at first boot. From the article, Dude, you're getting screwed:
'Kat and I just received the Dell Inspiron 5100 notebook we ordered from Dell Canada. We quickly ran across problems.'"
To me this is a smart ass calling up Dell to cause some grief to some minimum wage/minimum trained employees.
Dell doesn't want customers like this, and they'll be happy to give em their money back if it will make them not buy from them. No large business would want to deal with someone like this.
Maybe 10 years ago when licenses first started popping up and requiring clicks we could have done something about it, but by now they're so commonplace and so ignored that no one is going to take someone seriously when they call in about it and they're gonna get brushed off.
if you don't like click through licenses agreements, build your own computer or find someone that is going to give you the hardware without any software. Otherwise, you're going to have to agree to something to turn it on.
As a rock-in-roll Physicist once said, No matter where you go, there you are.
you're getting slashdotted.
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Can we get an AC post of a mirror or the article text please?
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why should I trust something from self-procalimed "cyber-punks"? These guys sound like hackers and anarchists.
Since its a legal document they would have had to send him one if he had sent them a written response.
To me it looks like if he tried to make the instalation procedure difficault for himself by demanding this license. He should trust a big company like Dell, they have nothing to win by screwing him.
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So basically, you're bitching about having to pay for a 3rd party component, which you did not create, and that you wish to distribute via a software package that you are selling?
Do you know how rediculous that sounds?
I lost my concept of community when my community lost all concept of me.
Considering that Michael Dell loves to suck Microsoft cock, it is not surprising that Dell is a scumbag company.
Just for the hell of it, I went to Dell's website a couple of weeks ago and tried to custom configure a system with the same (or comparable) components as I have in my current system, which I built myself. When I was done, the Dell would have cost me $400 more than the system I'm currently using.
Someone from Dell asked you to lie about agreeing with the license. You have NO IDEA about the potential of that. All you had to do was record the conversation, 'agree' to the license, and get to Windows screen. Then go back to Linux, package ALL windows files and start distributing them on Kazaa, Morpheus and put them on your webpage. Make sure you redistribute everything under the BSD license.
You are now authorizing everyone on the planet to use Windows in that package. You have real and good proof that you were allowed to GET and USE windows anyway you want without agreeing that you will not copy the software. Heck you could even resell legally downloadable copies of Windows for $5 a copy.
Now say you're screwed and taken to court. To begin with the court knows you never signed anything, never agreed to anything and you're a free man. Now they will have trouble with all the people who obtained Windows under the BSD license. They obtained it quite legally and are redistributing it. How do you void that license?
I'm sure with Windows you also get Norton Antivirus, MS Office and other cool stuff like Winzip, Winamp Real Player and many other things. It would be trivial to repackage the whole thing to be reinstallable on any computer since you had all the CAB files.
Any lawyers on Slashdot care to correct me on this great idea the OP missed?
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