I have seen it in market for Asus EEE PCs with Linux. There was a demand here in Czech Republic but Asus was not interested (it wanted to push Windows to the ma

I have seen it in market for Asus EEE PCs with Linux. There was a demand here in Czech Republic but Asus was not interested (it wanted to push Windows to the market). It had nothing to do with Linux being not in demand (the laptops were underpowered to run latest Windows), nor with U.S. antitrust laws; and everything with the fact that Asus preinstalls Windows on its other laptops. You simply don't want to believe these things happen. But if you pay attention, you can see lot of incidental evidence that it happens. But there is always plausible deniability, it's never done too overtly. > I never said that no one would ever try to "abuse" the consumer Companies are selected for abusive behavior by evolutionary pressure. No person or company is really interested in being in competition (if survival really depends on it); everybody runs as fast (and as creatively) as they can to avoid it and reap maximal profits. It can be shown on rather simple multi-agent simulations. I am not sure what leads so many people to conclusion that companies like MS or HP - which can build freaking computers and operating systems - cannot figure out a simple fact that in some cases acting together against consumer interests will in fact increase their profits.