From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 19 02:35:56 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C33106564A for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:35:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D24FA8FC16 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:35:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from park.js.berklix.net (p5B22F850.dip.t-dialin.net [91.34.248.80]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p1J2Zqvj002282 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:35:53 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by park.js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p1J2ZnQ6066797 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 03:35:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p1J2a6cp042442 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 03:36:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201102190236.p1J2a6cp042442@fire.js.berklix.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:32:59 EST." Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 03:36:06 +0100 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Subject: Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:35:56 -0000 > The major OEMs will say "OK, then you must return the computer," and > you have no option but to comply. This is true for the USA. 192 sovereign countries exist with differing laws. Licenses I've seen from usually USA companies in Europe over decades have often seemed to contravene local law. USA allows more restrictions I believe: reverse engineering & unbundling of soft+hardware bundles etc is OK in Europe I think. A British appeals court test case in '80s ruled against NCP: Conditions available after purchase are void. One would need an M$ licence to run M$, but if it held clauses that eg forbade running under emulation, or on replacement hardware, those could contravene some local law & if so be void. M$ was heavily fined by European court a while back (Search with "Microsoft convicted monopolist") I woudn't expect happy compliance. Reality: XP purchased with a Toshiba laptop runs native, but fails on virtualbox, on the same laptop. I believe XP is crippled to only run on Toshiba, & vbox presents too clean/generic an environment ;-) Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text; Not quoted-printable, Not HTML, Not base 64. Reply below text sections not at top, to avoid breaking cumulative context.