anti-Linux Policy at HP

[John McGregor]

I think that this whole conversation may be moot. I read all the on-line 
warranty addenda information for HP notebooks available on the HP site 
and nowhere is an OS mentioned in conjunction with a hardware warranty.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DocumentIndex.jsp?contentGroup=NT_CT_Warranty&lang=en&cc=us&prodSeriesId=3687778&prodTypeId=321957&docIndexId=64184

In the main warranty document it states that the software portion of the 
warranty may be voided if the consumer installs freeware, third party 
proprietary software or open soure operating systems.

http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/warranty.do

Ib Khider: I'd say that your next move should be to send copies of both 
warranty statements to HP and point out that the first document makes no 
reference to operating systems at all while the second does but only so 
far as how the installation of open source software will affect the 
warranties for any software pre-installed by HP.

HTH

John
(IANAL)


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