Linux is free and there's no stopping anybody from doing whatever they want to it. Windows is not free. When an OEM licenses Windows for resale in their PCs,

Linux is free and there's no stopping anybody from doing whatever they want to it. Windows is not free. When an OEM licenses Windows for resale in their PCs, that comes with certain terms and conditions about what the OEM can install. If this falls within the terms of the agreement of what the OEM can do, then Microsoft needs to take at least some of the heat.