Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: polygonum Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: A victory for free software over the "Microsoft tax" Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 19:37:52 +0100 Organization: me Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net mUcn2sq+E16iMNxZ6CqWJAKP6MIpuatTFrvWUlLlyvgy8VlhE= Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ra4Kk6cawSw9BUQ8OV3nfwurV6Y= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:5442 On 25/10/2014 19:21, Hils wrote: > "The Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione) issued a judgment that > bans the "Microsoft tax," a commercial practice that discourages users > from converting their PCs to GNU/Linux or other free operating systems > by forcing them to pay for a Windows license with their PCs. PC > producers in Italy now cannot refuse to refund the price of the license > to purchasers that will not run Windows." > > https://fsf.org/blogs/community/a-victory-for-free-software-over-the-microsoft-tax > If someone buys a PC with the intention of running a different version Windows to that supplied with the machine, would they still be liable to pay twice? For example, if I decide to buy a PC to test Windows 10, with a firm commitment (at least in my own mind) to go out and buy a copy on the first day it is available commercially, why would I not be able to get a refund of the license for W7 or W8? -- Rod