Comments on: Japan Chooses Openness, FSF Challenges OOXML, and South Africa to Decide on Document Formats (Corrected+Updated) http://techrights.org/2007/07/13/england-japan-south-africa-odf/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2007/07/13/england-japan-south-africa-odf/comment-page-1/#comment-1247 Roy Schestowitz Fri, 13 Jul 2007 23:09:20 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/13/england-japan-south-africa-odf/#comment-1247 It used the be the same case (more or less) with Internet Explorer. http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02346.pdf "3. INTERNET EXPLORER: Unless specifically requested to the contrary by the end user of the Customer System and provided proper translation is available, COMPANY will ship MS Internet Explorer 2.0, and the most current subsequent higher version Product Releases and Version Releases thereof, preinstalled on all new Customer Systems..." It used the be the same case (more or less) with Internet Explorer.

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02346.pdf

“3. INTERNET EXPLORER: Unless specifically requested to the contrary by the end user of the Customer System and provided proper translation is available, COMPANY will ship MS Internet Explorer 2.0, and the most current subsequent higher version Product Releases and Version Releases thereof, preinstalled on all new Customer Systems…”

]]> By: gpl1 http://techrights.org/2007/07/13/england-japan-south-africa-odf/comment-page-1/#comment-1245 gpl1 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:36:56 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/13/england-japan-south-africa-odf/#comment-1245 "The second observation to make is that one of the most popular requests in Dell’s IdeaStorm is preinstallation of OpenOffice.org. Dell has so far refused to respond to this demand." I think that Microsoft forces them to consider this a bundle (they can't sell Windows without offering Office)...there is a good email on this in the Comes exhibits. It was about one of the OEMs (Gateway, HP or IBM) talking about the actual prices for Windows and Office that they pay, and the Microsoft perspective on that it was a license or contract violation to discuss that. “The second observation to make is that one of the most popular requests in Dell’s IdeaStorm is preinstallation of OpenOffice.org. Dell has so far refused to respond to this demand.”

I think that Microsoft forces them to consider this a bundle (they can’t sell Windows without offering Office)…there is a good email on this in the Comes exhibits. It was about one of the OEMs (Gateway, HP or IBM) talking about the actual prices for Windows and Office that they pay, and the Microsoft perspective on that it was a license or contract violation to discuss that.

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