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French Judge Orders Refund For Pre-Installed XP
Racketiciel writes "A French user asked for a refund after buying an ASUS computer
that came with Windows XP and other software pre-installed. ASUS tried to
apply a procedure which cost more money to the consumer than they
will give back... The court ruled in favor of the user,
who received back 130 Euro (~200 $) for the software.
Here is the ruling (PDF, French). In France, this is the fourth victory for refund seekers during the last two years,
and many people are now filing for refunds (in French). Two French associations (AFUL
and April) published
a press release on this victory the same day an important hearing happened." The English-language press release linked above gives a pretty good idea of what happened here, for those unsuited to wading through French.
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This is same thing as $2mil/day charge ... milk ones that got money, especially if they are not EU companies..
What pathetic little shit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_resistance
Linux welfare as posited by a Randian looter liberal. What mushroom did you fall off that makes you think that of all the OSes, Linux should be afforded this legal entitlement? What if I wanted to just sell blank comps with no OSes? Would I be subject to your nanny state OS law?
Don't buy the bundle.
If you can't find a computer without XP, well SOL, you don't have a "right" to buy a computer not bundled with Windows XP, you don't have a right over computer makers.
This is of course a useless point since you CAN find computer without OS very easily in France.
Using unfair, stupid socialist laws to attack Microsoft is stupid and evil.
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Yes, and likewise if not for the U.S., Paris would have been renamed "Hitlerstadt" and we'd all be speaking German.
But it doesn't matter. It's like suing Rolls Royce because they won't sell you an SUV or a fancy car with vinyl seats. There are a number of companies that sell PCs without Windows, and if she didn't want Windows, she should've bought from one of those.
Maybe not
So it's the law, then?
So, how do you feel about copyright infringement?
lolololol!!!!111one
1933 they said the same... Step into the gas chamber, jews, it's the fucking law!
Also, stop the outrage about waterboarding or the death penalty or whatever - It's the fucking law.
Idiot...
Here's an idea. Build your own PC! Yes, that's right, build your own. The fact of the matter is these vendors are offering what a vast majority of their customers want. Just because you want to be the "rebel" and "bitch" about Microsoft. You'd probably end up installing a pirated copy of Windows on there as a dual boot or a VM anyway. You may as well just take the $30-$40 Windows license and be done with it.
What was the second one again?
sorry, didn't realize the french actually fought in WWII
I'm not in the habit of feeding trolls, but here goes.
The French Resistance, while valiant, did little to actually bring an end to the war. It only really helped foreign GIs return to their appropriate armies.
And of course there is the French Revolution. The only war that France won, which isn't saying much since it was a war against itself.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)