[Sderby] This thing called Windoze.

[Conrad Gavin]

Excuse me, but ... 

How can forcing you to buy a windows license be LEGAL? Don't we have
like fair trade laws or something that prevent this? Or at least some
kind of consumer laws? What if you went to a resteraunt for a meal and
they just added on 80 pounds worth of food to the bill - that you had
never ordered and even expressely stated you DIDNT want?

Surely there is some consumer 'statutary' rights being violated here?!
What about EEC regs etc? 

G.

On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 15:59, Paul Grosse wrote:
> > Your only options
> <snip>
> > or to build your own.
> 
> I like the idea of people going down to Maplins or wherever pricing up all
> of the bits, finding out that it is cheaper by a hundred quid to build their
> own, buying it, taking it home, spending the weekend putting it toether
> really carefully, starting the thing up and then realising that there is no
> OS. They then look up the price of MS whatever (what's the next one's code
> name: Windscale??? or have Acordis got that one for their next renaming :-))
> and finding that they are going to end up spending more than if they had
> bought it from PC World or Dixons. Why? because nobody has told them about
> Linux.
> 
> Paul Grosse.
> 
> 
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