On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:15, Russell Davie wrote: > Ok, So your have convinced me not to be concerned. In any case I set up an > rsync to another drive. > > So far I have communicated with Acer and Micorsoft. > > Acer have knocked me back cited the age old "contractual obligations with > MS" So I asked for the mailing address which I got and will put the request > in writing. Which is yet to be drafted. > > I rang MS and asked for a EULA, and I never got a reply. So I emailed them > and asked for for a copy of the EULA and explained that I thought I would > be implicitly agreeing to if I used the software or opened the shrink > wrapped CDs. They have written back and said the EULA is displayed on > booting the machine for the first time. MS said that as the EULA covers IP > from both OEM and MS and I should take my concern to Acer. >
This article (although dated) and the replies may be of interest. Getting a Windows Refund in California Small Claims Court http://interactive.linuxjournal.com/article/7040 -- Regards, Graham Smith -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
