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Calum:
personally i think it should be illegal to ship any software preinstalled. This would make it normal for people to buy whatever software they wanted. And it's no use saying 'most people won't know how to install yadda yadda' because if it was illegal, they would learn pretty quick how easy it is.
This would enable people firstly to choose what OS(s) they want and secondly to choose how much software they want to get too, and how much fuckware they want to leave in the shop. I believe this would revolutionise the software market, and it could only be good. I also think it would be the end of all software monopolies, since the compatibility/cross platform beast has almost been slain anyway

Master of Reality:

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
personally i think it should be illegal to ship any software preinstalled. This would make it normal for people to buy whatever software they wanted. And it's no use saying 'most people won't know how to install yadda yadda' because if it was illegal, they would learn pretty quick how easy it is.
This would enable people firstly to choose what OS(s) they want and secondly to choose how much software they want to get too, and how much fuckware they want to leave in the shop. I believe this would revolutionise the software market, and it could only be good. I also think it would be the end of all software monopolies, since the compatibility/cross platform beast has almost been slain anyway
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but there are lots of people who wouldnt even know how to install an OS. There would have to still be  computers that come pre-shipped with an OS, but they need to have a wider range of OSes found on the computers instead of just windows.

Calum:
no there would not have to be computers shipped with an OS. it is not hard. how hard is it to drive a car compared with installing an operating system? and yet everybody who wants to use a car learns, and what's more spends thousands on the bits of paper to make it legal. If it was necessary for people to install their own OS, they would all figure out how to do it pretty quickly, also on the other side systems would get EVEN EASIER (though i'm not sure how that could be done!) to install.

The problem stems from preinstalled OSs. If the OS is allowed to be preinstalled then there will always be incentives for one seller to push one particular OS. If not then it would actually be in the seller's interest to push more than one, explaining about dual booting and so on.

That's what i think anyway!  :D

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