Windows refund: stymied

[Keith Mastin]

> On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 21:54, Ian Goldberg wrote:
>> The whole story:
>>
>> http://www.cypherpunks.ca/dell.html
>
> This is now on /.  A good opportunity to muster ppl if any linux.ca +
> response to Dell + is desired.
>
> Cheers,
> Lloyd +

I agree to where I've been sseing this thread going, but I have a question...

Where will this all lead to? We send a petition, they look at it and
dismiss it because they have an agreement that stipulates they sell all
desktop systems with M$ software pre-installed.

Are we asking them to break that agreement? What is their incentive to do
it voluntarily? A bunch of people screaming unfair business practices
isn't nearly as potent as one individual in court screaming no fair.

Dell is a business, so they make decisions based on the bottom line. M$
must have offered them something (or the appearance of something?) in the
agreement they have together, and locked them in hard with a bunch of
fancy legal mumbo-jumbo.

The opensource community has to have something that they can see in their
future bottom line or they won't budge. Why should they if it isn't
plesing to shareholders?

That's my thoughts on all this... Ian? Seems the ball's in your court.
what's your thoughts on the goal for a final outcome of all this?

-- 
Keith Mastin
BeechTree Information Technology Services Inc.
Toronto, Canada
(416)696 6070


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