I would be very wary of any law, which interferes with operation of
businesses. There can always be unforeseen consequences. One possible
consequence comes to one's mind:
Embedded system which is always sold with an operating system and
applications which allow its safe operation.
Then one has to define the borderline between a PC to be covered and an
embedded system to be exempted.
I have a better suggestion:
Encourage (by getting people to demand it) providers to sell PCs with
Linux, in which a VM is installed and runs a MS-Windows XP image.
Such a configuration will benefit the Free Software world by making it
easy to bridge between MS-Windows XP and Linux (no more having to
dual-boot the PC).
--- Omer
On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 13:21 +0200, Dan Shimshoni wrote:
> I wish that there will be some serious initiative to take advantage
> of this precedent
> and to change the current status of PC/latop computer market
> in Israel ; I would wish that some
> law will be passed that would enforce ***every*** computer store in Israel
> to sale a PC/laptop with no OS on it, and also would enforce every
> advertisment
> of these stores to declare this option clearly. This is election time now.
> Maybe an Atzuma should be prepared ? maybe some parliament members
> will be interested in such an initiative ? Can anyone think of
> something ?
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