[Discuss] Windows tax (again)

[George Farris]

On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 10:26 -0700, Michael wrote:
> > Have you thought of sending the Lenovo back?
> > Anything else is just whining and posing.
> > If you don't like th service, don't buy it.
> > 
> > Peter
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> 
> 
> I'll take the bait.
> 
>     Lenovo makes good computers. They also have shareholders who bitch a
> blue streak if they are forced to absorb anything more than the very
> most cash efficient solutions. Wouldn't it be helpful to Lenovo if they
> could tell their shareholders, not to mention MS, that they are selling
> naked systems because THE LAW says they must. No posing, no whining,
> just people trying to find a practical solution to an entrenched
> systemic problem. Lenovo is not going to happily take less money, or
> risk pissing off MS, just to keep the freetards happy. They will however
> generally obey the laws of the nations in which they sell their systems.
> Case in point, 3g iPhone in China with wifi anyone? Like so many of our
> so called problems, it always seems to come down to political will.
> 
>     Political will is dictated by interests. Public and Corporate. The
> Corporates tends to get what they want because they are focused and
> driven. The Public tends not to get what they want because they bitch at
> the bus driver for a problem with the schedule, or call customer service
> when the problem lies with the CEOs and the shareholders. Most of the
> time the public doesn't even know they have any sort of right or option
> to make things better, unless someone, or some group, gets their
> attention and gives them something to focus their attention on.

Exactly, lets do this.  Next question, how to proceed?  I really think
it is time to make a statement and get our politicians involved.  

Letter writing while sometimes effective probably won't work here.
Possibly a combination but we need involvement from all the Linux users
Groups and just plain users across the country.

There has to be a way to legally show that the current way favors one
company and move forward with that to our government.

Ideas?