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Get a Refund of your proprietary operating system license

We all know the joy of acquiring a new laptop and the excitement of exploring its features and functionalities. However, the vast majority of laptops are only sold with a specific proprietary operating system: Microsoft Windows. The vendors do not remove the Windows license, and you must pay the entire price, even if you do not want to use this system.

This is unfair and we want to change it! 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.

Request your refund now!

  • nothingcorporate@lemmy.todayEnglish
    3·
    13 hours ago

    Depending on the size of the manufacturer, they’re getting Windows for pennies on the dollar. Dell and HP are probably paying something like $10 a license instead of $100+

    • Successful_Try543@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      10 hours ago

      Asus gives a reimbursement between 9 and 65 euros, depending on the Windows version.

      So if the numbers reflect what the manufacturer pays, you’re right. The “Home Edition” currently costs 145 € at M$ and Pro 259 €. That’s 94 % and 75 % discount respectively (or 50 % and 62 € discount extra).

  • Octavio@piefed.socialEnglish
    8·
    17 hours ago

    I heard about a company that sold laptops with Linux installed instead of Windows and I checked it out, expecting it to be a couple hundred dollars cheaper for a comparable machine, on account of not having to pay Microsoft a license fee. But actually if anything they were more expensive, so I was disappointed.