Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft's ORM 'Racketeering' Might be Ending in Europe

  • Subject: Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft's ORM 'Racketeering' Might be Ending in Europe
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:21:03 +0100
  • In-reply-to: <49631244.SrMOW521bn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Openpgp: id=BF436EC9; url=http://slated.org/files/GPG-KEY-SLATED.asc
  • Organization: Slated.org
  • References: <49631244.SrMOW521bn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070811 Remi/2.0.0.6-1.fc6.remi Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666
  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:562777
Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> Ruling: Acer must refund purchase price of preinstalled software that
> is not being used
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | In France the "Groupe de travail Détaxe" of the "Association
> | Francophone des Utilisateurs de Linux et des Logiciels Libres"
> | (AFUL) [Association of French-speaking users of Linux and free
> | software] is one of a number of groups calling for an end to what
> | it terms the "OEM tax."

Vive la France!

> | "Racketiciel" is composed of "racket" as in English and the 
> | ending "iciels" taken from "logiciel," the French word for software.
>  `----

"Racketiciel" - hehe, I like it. I'll add it to my repertoire.

> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Computers in the European Union should be sold without a bundled
> | operating system, according to this submission to the European
> | Commission.

Well that would certainly help end the racketiciel.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| "OOXML is a superb standard"
| - GNU/Linux traitor, Miguel de Icaza.
`----

Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) on sky, running kernel 2.6.22.1-41.fc7
 05:19:18 up 49 days,  4:14,  3 users,  load average: 0.39, 1.01, 0.85

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index