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

[Joe Linux]

Can you find the actual link?

Rodney Kanno wrote:

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