On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Raj Mathur wrote: > On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Manish wrote: > > [snip] > > > Thanks. What I am beginning to wonder is if it's okay under Indian > > law to bundle products (that too from different companies.) Feels > > like arm twisting to me.. and it hurts. But if it's okay under law > > then I am not sure I have a case. > > Playing the Devil's Advocate here for a bit: > > When you bought the laptop, you must have both seen advertisements for > it in the papers, trade journals, etc, and received a proforma invoice. > The ads and the invoice would have clearly listed out the features of > the product, and Winduhs would have been included in that list. > > Therefore, I can question your capability to refuse to accept one of the > known, listed features of the laptop after delivery. It would be a > different matter if after receiving the laptop you were surprised out > of your wits and said, ``Oh my $deity, this has Windows!'', but that > didn't happen, did it? :)
Yes, I was aware that it had Windows pre-installed. The advertisements did not say that I will have to agree to a separate (restrictive) license nor did it list the terms of the license anywhere I could read before I made the purchase (I will have to double check this.) I had access to the terms (unacceptable) only after I had purchased the notebook. :) > Let's replace the case of Winduhs with, say, a bundled Reliance/Tata > PCMCIA data card in a special offer. Having bought a laptop with one > of those cards, would you then be able to claim a refund on it because > you didn't want to use it? If not, then how is the case of Winduhs > different? Depends on the terms of the special offer, I guess. -- Manish _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
