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HP's Windows Bundle Trouble

Posted by Zonk on from the i'm-sorry-please-enter-your-option-again dept.

narramissic writes "A French consumer group has filed 3 lawsuits against HP, saying the company's practice of selling consumer PCs with Windows pre-installed violates a French law that 'prohibits linking the functionality of a product to another product' — not to mention that consumers wind up paying for an unwanted OS. For its part, HP contends that it is not in violation of the law because the OS is integral to the PC. 'The PC without an OS is not a product because it doesn't work,' said Alain Spitzmuller, legal affairs director for HP France. 'We believe the market is for products that work.'"

2 of 697 comments (clear)

  1. Re:He's an idiot by megaditto · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The "idiot" probably makes more in a week than you and me in our entire lives.

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    Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
  2. Same rules for macs? by copenja · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Does this mean that Apple also has to sell macs without an OS installed?