Windows refund: stymied

[Rick Tomaschuk]

Wal-Mart's web site http://www.walmart.com is selling Desktop PCs
(Microtel) with SuSE Linux preloaded. Also Lycoris and Lindows. They
currently offer a Notebook PC with Windows but I'm sure this will
change if they receive enough requests for Linux preloaded given their
critical mass in the business community.
RickT

Driving Force Technologies Ltd.
Rick Tomaschuk
Email: rickt-ZACYGPecefkNbK0NzMECUg at public.gmane.org

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On 31 Aug 2003 21:54:22 -0400, Matthew Rice <matt-s/rLXaiAEBtBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote :

> Ian Goldberg <linux-cOjNTMaGA5U at public.gmane.org> writes:
> > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 04:43:33PM -0400, Herb Richter wrote:
> > > BTW, I see a very interesting situation here:  if in fact the two
> > > contracts are separate and the first cannot bind the buyer to
agree to
> > > the second; can the buyer end up with a "legal" instance of the
OS without
> > > being obligated by the eula?
> > 
> > As far as I understand, this is never possible.  You can do all the
> > tricks you like to avoid agreeing to the EULA, but since that's the
> > document which grants you the permission you need to *copy the
software
> > from the hard disk to the computer's memory*, you'd no longer be
allowed
> > to do that.
> 
> Ian,
> 
> Read that article on the California guy closer.  He covers this.  He
didn't
> even go to court with a copy of the EULA [although he could have
gotten it
> elsewhere] and he still won.
> 
> Judges are human, too ;)
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