Posts by Sean O'Dea

UFO fleet menaces east London

stringing along

They are converging from left to right in strings of 3 - pretty obvious they're strung on lines from the pole across to a single point on the building.

PC superstore unhinged by Linux

Legally tricky

I'm no lawyer but would have thought this puts them on tricky ground. By making the use of Windows a condition of their warranty they could possibly find themselves having to warranty software that the original manufacturer doesn't. It would take a court to decide but most courts don't like product vendors who try to take advantage of both sides of a situation and would take a dim view of a warranty that's dependant on a component that itself has no warranty.

If I were a hardware vendor the last thing I would want to be doing is associating Windows with any kind of warranty as you're warrantying product as "free from defects" which is suicidal as it's always going to be possible to find it unfit for purpose.