On 5/17/24 01:09, J Leslie Turriff via libreplanet-discuss wrote:
On 2024-05-14 20:49:08 Marc Sunet wrote:
Which reminds me, how is it still legal for an OEM to ship a "default"
OS in a computer without giving the customer any choice, esp. with
BIOSes that now often don't let you boot a third-party OS unless you
enable the option explicitly (and those that they let you boot I think
need a secure boot key signed by Microsoft, lol)? Has this been an
avenue of research for the FSF or some other organization lately?
Marc
I've often wondered about this. I think that the FTC should be
pursuing the
issue.
Leslie
Or it could be taken up in the EU.
However, either way it would be important to study the earlier attempts
including relevant court cases, and be able to pick the 'right' judge or
court or jurisdiction so as to find one that does not have family ties
to m$ investments or to the m$ ecosystem or is not an bill/m$ fan like
has happened before.
As far a class action lawsuit or similar, as far as I know it has not
been tried beyond the occasional individual approaching the OEM for a
refund, once or twice a court, and even that was now long ago. Perhaps
such legal action could be crowdsourced. Or, maybe there is overlap
between the FSF and the EFF if they are still pursuing their charters.
/Lars
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