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

[Jan Claeys]

David Gerard schreef op vr 05-11-2010 om 13:15 [+0000]:
> 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. 

This is true in all of the EU actually.  As a consumer you always get at
least 2 years of warranty on all electronic devices, and it only gets
void if something broke because you did something dangerous to the
hardware.  Installing a new OS is not supposed to be dangerous, unless
they can show it's likely that that OS can cause the damage that you
want your laptop replaced/repaired for.

Unfortunately, most consumers don't know about consumer protection laws.


-- 
Jan Claeys