[Nottingham] Share your operating system bundling tales with the EU

[Michael Erskine]

On 21 April 2011 08:24, Simon Osborne <flibble at gmail.com> wrote:
> Unless I'm missing something, what is the problem here? All Linux
> users that I know are perfectly able and capable to install a variant
> of Linux onto any PC that came with Windows. Since computers with
> Windows installed are subsidised by Microsoft they are cheaper to buy
> than the same machine with Ubuntu or no OS installed. So to me it's
> perfectly logical to take advantage of Microsoft and buy the cheaper
> hardware and replace the OS with Linux.

Maybe they are cheaper - but they shouldn't be! There's the problem :D