Caged by Microsoft
Posted less than 2 days ago in libreplanet-discuss:
On 5/16/24 22:38, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:Il 15/05/24 04:49, Marc Sunet ha scritto:Which reminds me, how is it still legal for an OEM to ship a "default" OS in a computer without giving the customer any choice [...]? Has this been an avenue of research for the FSF or some other organization lately?It's already illegal in the EU, according to multiple court rulings applying the EU treaties. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140912-01.en.html https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210302-01.en.html https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/WindowsTaxRefund
As far as I understand it, the Court ordered Lenovo to pay damages for charging for the copy of Windows that came pre-installed on the machine; that isn't to say that OEMs are now obliged to offer alternative OS installations.
As an associate of ours put it: "A prerequisite for further increases in FOSS OS market share is that the OEM monopoly of Microsoft has to be broken."