[luau] [Article] Preinstalled Windows: AARGH! I can't get it off!

Rodney Kanno pepe65 at hawaii.rr.com
Tue Apr 30 14:58:51 PDT 2002


This is so wrong! Now MS is attempting to force people to use windows?

[excerpt]

If a PC shipped with Windows preinstalled, can you remove the OS and install
Linux instead? Well, no, according to Microsoft. A somewhat obscure
Microsoft site  aimed at helping schools deal with donated computers flatly
states: "It is a legal requirement that pre-installed operating systems
remain with a machine for the life of the machine."

If this is intended to mean what it says, then Microsoft is effectively
treating the hardware and the software as a single, integrated package that
you're not allowed to break up. If the statement is applied without
qualification, then you're in breach of your licence agreement (and/or some
bizarre law they've sneaked past us) if you vape Windows and put something
else on instead, or if (as do many major companies) you buy a bunch of PCs
with one MS installed and then install another....

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Rodney Kanno
Webpage: http://home.hawaii.rr.com/kanno65
Email: pepe65 at hawaii.rr.com





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