Il giorno mer, 01/08/2007 alle 01.35 +1200, Timothy Musson ha scritto: > If anyone has advice/suggestions, it'd be very welcome :^) > > Thanks very much, > > Tim
Hello! I hope to be wrong, but we discussed that while trying to organize a movement to help people doing just that, avoid the m$ tax. It seems that some companies require you give back the whole computer if you don't accept the m$ license. This is because m$ sold to, say, HP (Dell, IBM for that matter) the right to use the software, then these companies give you, under the EULA, right to use the software, following that a given copy of the software is tied to exactly one machine (the one you get). On a side note, I've got an HP laptop and this was clearly stated: with the m$ EULA, there was an HP EULA stating that the software installed was subject to license, I had the right to remove that, but not to copy it or install on a different computer (bla bla bla), and that if I wanted money back I had to return the machine as is to the shop within a month or so, or to a valid HP support center. I hate to admit that I gave up on that. We are in the middle of a petition to ask our Government to give customers the right to get money back if they don't use the pre-installed software and to make that easy. So my guess is that this really depends on your own country. If you manage to get these money back, please share your experience with us. Mario -- Lima Software - http://www.limasoftware.net/ GNU Classpath Developer - http://www.classpath.org/ Fedora Ambassador - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MarioTorre Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp key: http://subkeys.pgp.net/ PGP Key ID: 80F240CF Fingerprint: BA39 9666 94EC 8B73 27FA FC7C 4086 63E3 80F2 40CF Please, support open standards: http://opendocumentfellowship.org/petition/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/
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