Jupiter Jones said:
I would rather people decide with their wallet rather than government get
involved with yet another law telling how to do something when the consumer
already has many choices.
Yes, I'd rather have free choice, BUT the OEM licensing arrangements tend to
preclude that option. If the preinstalled copy is what you MUST use, then it
needs to be a genuine copy of Windows. A copy with foistware which will not
uninstall is not a genuine copy, by any stretch of the imagination, and the
consumer is being cheated when the advertising says "'Windows supplied.'
Winaoldows maybe. Windows... No.
But I do feel:
1. The OEMs and other sellers need to be more forthright about the
differences in their OEM product.
This very true, and a key part of the problem is that the consumer has no
way of knowing what they'll find on the computer until after they've paid
their cash and taken it home. IT buyers are only slightly better-off, even
they can only go by past experience.
If I ordered a Porsche I wouldn't accept it if it had a trailer with an
advertising-billboard welded to it. Not even if the advertising partly paid
for the car. So, why a computer?