If you want to boycott the warehouse because they sell a PC that has an
operating system that in turn includes certain software loaded by
default, go right ahead.
While the warehouse sells me DVDs at $10 or less I'll still be going.
However, it's unlikely that I'll be buying a PC from them, simply
because I don't want to pay for an operating system that I don't want.
I don't even care how that operating system's configured!
The way I see it anyway, as long as you can (1) easily uninstall or turn
off the Windoze Live Toolbar and (2) install the google seach thingy,
there's absolutely no parallel to the anti-trust suite MS copped last time.
Regards,
Michael.
Don Gould wrote:
Do you recall the impact of including IE in windows 95 for Netscape?
Do I need to draw anymore of a line?
Cheers Don
Jim Cheetham wrote:
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21385692%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
Boycott the Warehouse because it points Windows default search to a
Microsoft service, rather than Google or Yahoo?
I don't see the practical link between Linux/Open Source and that
situation, so I don't see any reason to boycott them.
