Woe to you if you distribute anything other than a Microsoft operating system

[David Gerard]

On 5 November 2010 09:19, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
> On 28 October 2010 13:12, John Pinner <john at clocksoft.com> wrote:

>> In the UK, Dell do not sell Linux boxes, and say that, if you install
>> Linux on one of their laptops, the warranty is invalidated. That was the
>> last I knew, anyway (a year ago).

> One of the guys on the Ubuntu UK loco list contacted dell recently and
> they confirmed they would honour the hardware warranty if he installed
> Ubuntu on it.


The UK has remarkably good consumer protection laws, particularly
compared to the US, and particularly on mail order goods. Dell would
be *insane* to try to claim that a software change invalidated a
hardware warranty in the UK.


- d.