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Windows Price Ruling Not Enough, Says French Consumer Group
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| A French electronics retailer must display separately the price of computers
| and of the software bundled with them, a Paris court ruled Tuesday. It
| stopped short of ordering the retailer to sell computers without bundled
| operating system software, however.
|
| [...]
|
| The ruling will give little comfort to those wanting to buy a PC on which to
| run Linux: they will still have to pay for Windows, although they will at
| least know exactly how much they had to pay for it.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147547/windows_price_ruling_not_enough_says_french_consumer_group.html
People hate Vista and it shows. They want their money back for wiping it.
How dare Microsoft force every PC maker to put "work in progress" on every PC?
< "Ballmer: Vista Is 'a Work in Progress' [1.5 years after release]"
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144773/ballmer_vista_is_a_work_in_progress.html>
Related:
French court orders Windows refund
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| In France, it is illegal to bundle software and to refuse to reimburse the
| customer for unwanted licences, under Article L.122-1 of the French Consumer
| Code. The Tribunal de Grande Instance ruled that offering an expensive refund
| option was tantamount to offering no refund option at all, hence finding for
| the consumer and requiring that Asus stump up.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/05/19/french-court-nobbles-asus
French police deal blow to Microsoft
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| The French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it is ditching Microsoft
| for the free Linux operating system, becoming one of the biggest
| administrations in the world to make the break.
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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iU4Lq7tOR_WVOJLZ3IeRaIH03x6w
French consumer protectionists are demanding PCs without preinstalled
software
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| The consumer protectionists of the French organization UFC-Que Choisir
| are demanding of the IT group Hewlett-Packard and the vendors Auchan
| and Darty that they offer PCs without preinstalled software.
|
| [...]
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| UFC-Que Choisir last year also took action against Sony and Apple,
| taking the two companies to court for allegedly putting their
| customers at a disadvantage through proprietary DRM technologies
| and curtailing their choice of devices.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/82605/from/rss09
French consumer group attacks PC software bundling
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| UFC-Que Choisir legal officer Sandra Wouhling said current
| practice effectively forced ordinary consumers to buy computers
| using Microsoft operating systems whereas companies anda
| dministrations were offered a real choice.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20061214:MTFH94365_2006-12-14_14-49-22_L14537403&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/yf7kfu
French Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Choose Mandriva
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| The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries chose to migrate its local
| servers (about 400 machines) from Windows NT Server to Mandriva
| Corporate Server 4.0, within two years.
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http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr/french_ministry_of_agriculture_and_fisheries_choose_mandriva
France pins hopes of growth on open-source software
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| The French government plans to make the region around Paris a center of
| excellence for open-source software development, the French Minister of the
| Economy, Finance and Industry, Thierry Breton, said Monday.
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http://open.itworld.com/4915/061205franceopen/page_1.html
French National Assembly switches to Linux
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| Linux, OpenOffice and Firefox favoured
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| [...]
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| One deputy in favour of the move is Bernard Carayon, commissioned by
| the Prime Minister earlier this year to report on how European
| businesses could play a greater role in developing global industrial
| standards, in order to reduce Europe's economic dependance on other
| regions.
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http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=7687
Free Ubuntu laptops for French students
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| Five thousand French students now have laptops running
| Ubuntu, thanks to a local government initiative.
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http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/597
http://linuxfr.org/2006/10/16/21479.html
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