[Ubuntu-be] Bad news for Belgian People

[Bert Claes]

During investigating concerning bundled purchases, I have contacted "Service
public Fédéral Economie, PME, Classes Moyennes et Energie - Protection des
droits des consommateurs", the consumer watchdogs and I asked them about
PC-sales coupled with MS windows,

I copied the generic part of their response:


1. Article 55 of the law on commercial practices [...] authorises a conjoint
offer at a global price of goods that form an "ensemble". The notion of an
"ensemble" is difficult to define, because it refers to commercial usages.
The parlementary works have precised that this notion has to be interpreted
on a rather large way. The only question is whether or not the services are
relevant concerning the same bussiness activity.
The uses of the IT sector are such that is is a habit of selling a pc with
different programs or OS'es on it. The fact that you can buy a PC without an
OS or an OS without a pc, is not relevant.

2. The seller is free to establish his own commercial politics an to choose
the type of products he offers to sell. It is up to the consumer to accept
or not.

3. If
the seller accepts to remove the program to sell a pc without
programmes, he can charge for this intervention.


cEd

So, the Belgium government can't force anything.
The best thing you can do is to buy from small bussiness and not the big
ones (not until they start offering Linux on their pc's in belgium, anyway.)

Bert Claes




On 10/29/07, Gunirus <gunirus at linux-info.be> wrote:
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> Op Monday 29 October 2007 16:27:51 schreef Cedric Janssens:
> > Sorry, it's in French :
> >
> > http://forum.kubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1277012
>
> Can someone translate it? (English, Dutch?)
>
> Gunirus
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