Microsoft Laptop Recipient Auctioning Laptop

Salvance writes "While most bloggers who received the controversial Vista powered Acer from Microsoft are keeping them, Laughing Squid has decided to auction off his free laptop from Microsoft and donate all proceeds to the The Electronic Frontier Foundation. (EFF) He saw this as a great opportunity to support a worthy cause, and some other bloggers are following suit. What's funny is that Microsoft is now backpedaling and telling bloggers to send back the laptops. Do they even have a legal right to do so?"

Comments

Re:Can they ask for them back? Yes.

[Bastard of Subhumani]

They asked that they be given away or returned to them when reviewed, very big difference.

I gave mine away, to my pet dog. He didn't like it much, so he sold it back to me for a biscuit and a tummy tickle. And I challenge any layer to prove otherwise.

Re:Can they ask for them back? Yes.

[Bloke down the pub]

If someone sends you something in the mail, it is yours, even regardless of what is included in it.

And if the bank accidentally transfers money into your account you can keep it. If they ask for it back, it's entrapment. What's more, if a cop gives you a speeding ticket and he's not wearing his hat, you don't have to pay.

Blogger control

[kahei]

The real news here is how snobbish, foppish and whiny that blogger is. Is this what the blogosphere is like?? Is it really ruled by Mac-obsessed almost-hipsters with unwise facial hair and diagonal black-and-white photos of themselves? Do they really whinge on about how they're too clever to use Vista and how their webcasting startup will change the face of the Internet (sidebar on the right)?

Is this it, after 10 years of evolution?? Nathan Barley writ small, throwing a hissy fit because the wording of the letter on a review item was vague? THAT is a blogger important enough to merit unsolicited review junk??

Yeesh.

Re:Blogger control

[Bazman]

No, its much worse, this is it after four and a half billion years of evolution.

Re:This article needs to be changed.

[Anonymous Coward]

>I hate MS as much as anyone, but there's no need to make stuff up.
You must be new here.

Re:This article needs to be changed.

[rolfwind]

Let us hope so, otherwise he read that joke at least a million times.

Re:huh

[1u3hr]

That's like saying if it weren't for car thieves necessitating keys and alarm systems, then the price of cars would only be the cost of the materials that go into it.

Thus raising the bar for most incomprehensible and absurd "car = software" analogy.

Re:This article needs to be changed.

[MrShaggy]

I thought that the open-source community was suposed to be better.. There are no fan-boy-fanatics, (RMS aside)

Re:This article needs to be changed.

[jacksonj04]

Well, mostly not. Except for Firefox zealots. And people who refuse to consider anything but Linux. Oh, and don't forget distro wars. Should I be using KDE or Gnome? Vi or Emacs?

Interesting? Come on mods, this one is funny.

Re:This article needs to be changed.

[breckinshire]

And it never gets old. I, for one, welcome our joke-repeating..

Ah, forget it. In Soviet Russia, something or other.

Re:This article needs to be changed.

[Warg! The Orcs!!]

surely

In Soviet Russia, other or something

Re:This article needs to be changed.

[chris_mahan]

I ctrl-K all over your comment.