On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Venkat Mangudi <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Saturday 02 October 2010 03:48 PM, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: > >> Can we drag Microsoft into court because most of the hardware companies >> are selling hardware with software. They should sell them separate. Almost >> everybody is forced to buy Laptop with Window preinstalled. >> >> >> It might not make sense to sue Microsoft for this. The computer > manufacturers are to blame for shipping computers with Windows > pre-installed, right? > We need more investigation on this. Btw , please see this - One of the ways Microsoft combats piracy is by advising OEMs that they will be charged a higher price for Windows unless they drastically limit the number of PCs that they sell without an operating system pre-installed. In 1998, all major OEMs agreed to this restriction."[30]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft#cite_note-29>This has been called the "Windows tax" or "Microsoft tax" Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft#Licensing_agreements -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya │ http://narendrasisodiya.com └─────────────────────────┘
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