On 5/16/24 22:38, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Il 15/05/24 04:49, Marc Sunet ha scritto:
Which reminds me, how is it still legal for an OEM to ship a
"default" OS in a computer without giving the customer any choice
[...]? Has this been an avenue of research for the FSF or some other
organization lately?
It's already illegal in the EU, according to multiple court rulings
applying the EU treaties.
https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140912-01.en.html
https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210302-01.en.html
https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/WindowsTaxRefund
As far as I understand it, the Court ordered Lenovo to pay damages for
charging for the copy of Windows that came pre-installed on the machine;
that isn't to say that OEMs are now obliged to offer alternative OS
installations.
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