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What is illegal is not selling a computer without an operating system. From what I understand, brazilian law considers the PC and OS two different products and
by phowat 14y ago
What is illegal is not selling a computer without an operating system. From what I understand, brazilian law considers the PC and OS two different products and it is illegal for a company to only sell you one product if you also buy another one tied together. In my company, we buy all our servers and workstations from Dell and it never comes with a Windows license unless you explicitly request to the sales person. Although, I remember at least one case where we bought a laptop and the seller said it would come with the most basic windows 7 version because it was free for that particular laptop model. I don't know what would have happened if we insisted in having it shipped without it.
- cooldeal 14y ago>What is illegal is not selling a computer without an operating system Does that apply to Macs, Chromebooks, iPads too?
- phowat 14y agoIANAL, but I think the key difference is that these operating systems are not sold as a standalone component you can buy and install on any pc you like. That's why it applies to a Windows license and not to a Mac OS license for example.
- nolok 14y agoIf it's like France; it's technically illegal too, apple just never has been in front of a judge about it (and when they do, I guess they will argue that they sell the disk and not the license to use the OS).
- phowat 14y agoI didn't think of that, I agree this is more likely the explanation.