6 Jun
2006
6 Jun
'06
9:55 a.m.
Hi,
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 03:05:36PM +0200, Georges Toth wrote:
Since when did laws interest Mr. Gates?
If
today's Slashdot article is to be believed, you may forget
getting Lenovo hardware without paying the MS tax:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/04/0415221
If it is illegal in Europe...a "great deal" with m$ can't change
the laws. It just takes someone to challenge them :-)
Go ahead if you like... ;-)
... btw I'm wondering
why the EU complains about m$ bundling media-player and ie and
the smb case etc; but they don't care that m$ pays some real
money and "forces" distributors to bundle windows with their
pc's.
cf. Brent.
Why I'm writing anyway:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/73885
Sounds like Lenovo will provide Linux if asked. I'd
doubt though that they'd go through the trouble for a
single system. But, with this option, it should be
possible to get a machine without preinstall, just step
hard enough on their toes ;-)
Greetings, Eric