On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Manish wrote: [snip]
> So I guess there are going to be two parts to > this effort/fight: short term and long term. > The short term part needs to be dealt with in > MRTP and/or consumer court. BTW, meanwhile > Lenovo is figuring out their address in India > that can receive a legal notice. > But what about the long term issue? Who/which > organization needs to be influenced/educated to > implement it? Do we even attempt it? How? Do > we discuss it here at all since the list is for > "Linux and Linux-related issues" and this may be > considered off-topic. IMHO, it's not since it's > about computing freedom. Lenovo finally sent an address for legal notice. And I just spoke to a local lawyer. Here are the minutes: - Explained the situation to him. - He said that vendor can not disown the product and this is tantamount to cheating. - He suggested approaching high court since consumer forums are not equipped for this. - My suggestion of approaching consumer forum/MRTP was not taken very enthusiastically. - He told that many cases in consumer forums drag from 3 months to over an year. - He suggested also filing for damages as well for lost time and mental peace. - I told him that I am not primarily after financial damages (and determining fair price of Windows would be another long debate) and would like Lenovo to admit that what they did was wrong and issue a written apology. - I also that I wish a PIL could be filed since it is a general practice/problem and most consumers either are not aware or do not bother and are taken for a ride. - He reaffirmed that High Court would be the right place. - He told that INR 12,000.00 would be the charges for the whole case including serving legal notice, court appearances etc. I would appreciate advice from the list at this point. It's the first step I need help with rest will take it's own natural logical course. -- Manish _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
