User gets £70 refund from Dell for rejecting Windows license

Hades · 20 Oct 2009 at 10:58

More happy days...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/19/windows_dell_linux_refund/

Smit · 20 Oct 2009 at 11:04

hmm can't make up my mind if this is good or bad.

What's to stop everyone from rejecting it and then installing a pirated version of windows? Absolutely nothing I would imagine. So then what will happen? Laptops will be sold at the same price but without an OS? Laptops will be sold without an OS and so who knows the compatibility/stability?

paradigm · 20 Oct 2009 at 11:14

Retard Graeme said:
"Have you ever actually read the Microsoft Windows End User License Agreement? It's pretty scary what you commit yourself to. If you buy Dell, then as soon as you start Windows then you agree to a second set of scary software terms. So reject them."

So, which "scary" bits would these be then? Or are you infact a Microsoft hater because they are a large corporation, and a true definition of the term "linux geek" who give regular Linux users a bad name?

Petty IMO.

BigglesPiP · 20 Oct 2009 at 11:41

Hey, you're entitled to not agree with anything you want.

I think this is more about the money, had my EEE not come pre-loaded with a linux distro, I'd be after £70 too.

FirebarUK · 20 Oct 2009 at 12:57

So, which "scary" bits would these be then? Or are you infact a Microsoft hater because they are a large corporation, and a true definition of the term "linux geek" who give regular Linux users a bad name?

Petty IMO.

whooop whooop Fanboy alert!

He is perfectly entitled not to agree to the EULA. The EULA states he can have a refund, so be it. Good on him. MS should make their EULA clearer if they want to avoid this (after sale, bundled with a PC etc etc.). However, once they do I'm sure the European Commission would come down on them like a sack of spuds.

This is a good thing really. More choice!

bledd · 20 Oct 2009 at 14:03

nothing new here, this has happened many times before..

tntcoder · 20 Oct 2009 at 14:11

Don't Dell sell Ubuntu laptops anyway? He should have just brought that and saved himself the trouble

BigglesPiP · 20 Oct 2009 at 15:32

FirebarUK said:
MS should make their EULA clearer if they want to avoid this

They don't, in fact M$ hosted a lot of the Open Source community's protests to manufacturers that this part of the EULA was not being upheld.

Rroff · 20 Oct 2009 at 17:06

Personally I think the guy is a ****... I'm sure its possible to get a similiar or better priced system elsewhere without a preinstalled OS... its a packaged deal designed for people who do want the OS.