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It’s not an antitrust suit against Microsoft, but Frances’s UFC-Que Choisir has a similar bee in their bonnet:
France’s leading consumer watchdog said on Thursday it would take U.S. computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. and two retailers to court to unbundle software from personal computers sold in their stores.
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UFC-Que Choisir legal officer Sandra Wouhling said current practice effectively forced ordinary consumers to buy computers using Microsoft operating systems whereas companies and administrations were offered a real choice.
I’m sure that even in France there are sources of “clean machines” for those that want them, so I wonder at the rationale for making all vendors offer them.
