[H-GEN] Fwd: Me and Linux

Russell Stuart russell-humbug at stuart.id.au
Mon Apr 2 20:54:33 EDT 2007


On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 10:07 +1000, Sandra Mansell wrote:
> IANAL, but I'm fairly certain that any company that tried to tell you 
> what software you could and couldn't run on your computer as conditions 
> of warranty wouldn't have a leg to stand on when it came time to claim 
> on a hardware fault. That just reeks of a clause that couldn't actually 
> be enforced by law. (Plus unless it was the hard drive that died, you 
> could always throw it in another machine and chuck Windows on it to take 
> back for the warranty claim ;-) )

It won't be that.  If you took your machine with a
broken power adaptor and they said you couldn't fix 
it because you were not running Windows then by all 
means take them to the ACCC.  But you had better do 
it quickly because if they treat their customers like 
that they won't be in business for too long.

But if you take your machine in because the HDD is 
giving occasional errors, then be prepared for the 
technician to put his Windows diagnostic CD into
the drive, then recoil in confusion when he sees
the GUI.

Be realistic.  There is no much else he can do.  Plan 
ahead.  Have a 4G swap partition that the technician 
can install his copy of Windows onto if things get 
desperate.

Non Windows users are a small percentage of the 
population.  Don't go demanding that everybody 
should go out of their way to accommodate us.  Its
like Muslims demanding everybody in Australia 
should go out of their way to accommodate Shariah
law.  For now we are the minority, so be prepared
to be the ones doing the accommodating.





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