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If this was indeed a fact advertised on the marketing material or worse on the packaging/product page, then he can have a refund or at least a partial one, depe
by nolok 7y ago
If this was indeed a fact advertised on the marketing material or worse on the packaging/product page, then he can have a refund or at least a partial one, depending on the country. If it was talked about what could happen, or not mentionned in any official marketing material but in PR pieces, then nope.
See eg the PS3 claiming it could install a normal linux.
I don't know how the exact laws work in other countries, but in France it's also two different things that work differently, one is you sold me a product that isn't working, the other is your marketing lied. Both are illegal but on different terms. Thus if it's not on the box or product page, then it's a marketing material issue.
- Steltek 7y agoWasn't the PS3 refund only like $10-$20? Why even go through that effort for a Chromebook?
- NullPrefix 7y agoIt's not about the $10-$20, it's about sending the message.
- CydeWeys 7y agoCosting a many billion dollar multinational corporation $10-20 isn't sending a message at all. It's just a waste of your time.
- AstralStorm 7y agoNot if you expand the $10 into a class action. That however is a lot of work.
- CydeWeys 7y agoIt still doesn't add up to a lot of money. The total class of people who were trying to run Linux on the PS3 and then weren't able to just isn't that big.
- boring_twenties 7y agoOnce the class action is in motion, what's to stop many more PS3 owners to claim that they were interested in running Linux just to get the free ten bucks?
- thrower123 7y agoThat winds up being a big payday for a law firm, and free identity monitoring for everybody else...