Re: [tdf-discuss] Competition in the EU regarding pre-installed Windows

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 2:03 PM, M Henri Day <mhenriday@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/4/22 Simos Xenitellis <simos.lists@googlemail.com>
>
> > FFII and the AFUL (two free-software associations) have started a
> > crowd-sourcing effort
> > to provide information to the European Commission Competition agency about
> > the lack of choice for the consumers when it comes to computers and
> > compulsory pre-installed Windows.
> >
> > Original press-releases:
> >
> > http://press.ffii.org/Press%20releases/Share%20your%20operating%20system%20bundling%20tales%20with%20the%20EU
> >
> > http://aful.org/communiques/share-your-operating-system-bundling-tales-with-the-eu
> >
> > Here is my take to simplify the message,
> > http://simos.info/blog/archives/1198
> >
> > How is this relevant to LibreOffice? The source of the problem is the
> > bundling of Microsoft
> > Windows to the new computers. The manufacturers get discounts for the
> > licenses if they support
> > only Windows, if they promote only Windows on their websites and ads, and
> > so on.
> > If this relationship weakens, we may see a chance for LibreOffice on
> > new computers,
> > or Linux computers that obviously have LibreOffice.
> >
> > tl;dr: Visit http://ec.europa.eu/competition/forms/consumer_form_en.html
> > to report cases where you could not buy a computer without Windows,
> > while you had not need for Windows.
> >
> > Simos
>
> «If this relationship weakens, we may see a chance for LibreOffice on new
> computers, or Linux computers that obviously have LibreOffice.»
>
> 'tis a consummation. Devoutly to be wished. But somehow I find it difficult
> to envisage either Joaquín Almunia eller Alexander Italianer going that
> far....

I do not understand the comment.

What we do is report to the EU the cases we know, where we were forced
to buy a computer
with pre-installed Windows, although we did not need Windows (either
we use Linux
or we already had a Windows license).

It's up to the Competition agency of the European Commission to take
appropriate action.
That's their job.
Our job, and the initiative from the FFII and AFUL, is to report cases
to the EC Competition agency.

Simos

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