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Re: [News] Compaq Says Installing Linux Voids Its Hardware Warranty

  • Subject: Re: [News] Compaq Says Installing Linux Voids Its Hardware Warranty
  • From: "DFS" <nospam@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:15:20 -0500
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: BellSouth Internet Group
  • References: <1240649.rExhaBcQRN@schestowitz.com> <vj7gd4-2ec.ln1@sky.matrix>
  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:508091
[H]omer wrote:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> ChangeLog: Run Linux, lose warranty
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> When she called Compaq -- the unit comes with a one-year warranty
>>> on the hardware -- they asked what operating system she was running.
>>> When she told them Linux, they said, "Sorry, we do not honor our
>>> hardware warranty when you run Linux." In order to get warranty
>>> service, she was told, she would have to remove Linux and
>>> reinstall the original OS.
>> `----
>>
>> http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/23/1430204&from=rss
>>
>> The crazy world we live in...
>
> Reminds me of the days when ignorant salespeople used to regularly
> parrot the line that selling computers without Windows was "illegal",
> when what they actually meant was that it would be a breach of their
> clandestine contract with Microsoft.

Is that anything like the "clandestine" $7000 seminar the FSF is hosting to 
explain the "fine points" of the GPLv3?

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/02/22/gpl_seminar/

Or how about the "clandestine" OSS and Linux organizations which establish 
themselves as non-profits so they can play around with free software all day 
at taxpayer expense?

How shady can OSS creeps get?




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