"Consumers should be able to buy laptops without any specific operating system, and should not have to pay the license price if they don't want to." How to mak

"Consumers should be able to buy laptops without any specific operating system, and should not have to pay the license price if they don't want to." How to make sales when generally no one wants to buy what you are selling, e.g., a proprietary software license Tie the product to another product that generally everyone wants to buy, e.g., personal computers Preinstall the proprietary software on the computer Make it difficult to replace the software (OS) with an alternative, e.g., a UNIX-like OS This worked for Microsoft If the consumer buys a laptop and overwrites (erases) Windows with a freely available, open source OS, then why should she pay for a Windows license