It's about the only arguement you have, maybe a class action is possible, since in effect it's a restrictive practice bound to result in eliminating outsiders, but who will sue Gateway ? Costs millions, and they know it.
Gateway could have a BIG problem here, possibly a class action law suit.
If we had governments with bottle it ought to be incumbent upon them to bring actions on behalf of the consumer, but they don't, and in any case if they did tell you at the point of sale that this is a Windows only machine, like as not they might even get away with it, my guess is that it merely said something like fully supports windows OS blah blah, no other OS is supported, which is their way of saying they don't guarantee anything else, but it does not say that they have doctored the bios to prevent any other form of OS being installed, which looks very like a class action suit to me.
If they want to sell third rate hardware to customers that do not know any better they deserve it.But I am also guessing that your mobo manufacturer has a bios upgrade for your board that is neither a gateway special restrictive, and is what they would normally install on your mobo for general sale under their own name brand and will support linux OS installs.If so that is the best route for you.
Any legal prows out there with any opinions?
Marc
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