[ubuntu-za] ubuntu-za Digest, Vol 67, Issue 17

[Christoff Erasmus]

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On 13 Apr 2011 11:48, "Michael Graaf" <graaf.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Christoff wrote:
> > As much I'd love to buy a new laptop without having Windoz on it, your
> > arrgument does not really hold water.
> >
> Please elaborate?
>
> > Court cases are really expensive.
>
> You seem not to have read the original post, where I proposed that a
> public-interest law firm would tackle this at no cost to us.
>
> > And I doubt that we will get a favourable profile, for taking
> > suppliers to court.
>
> Hence the suggestion (again, in the original post!) that we could seek a
> declaratory order on grounds of "class interest", where instead of suing
> any particular merchant, we could ask the court to order them all to
> obey the law. However, I am not a lawyer and we would need advice on
> this.
>
> In the scenario where a particular consumer would sue a particular
> retailer who had refused a refund, any un/favourable profile would
> accrue to that individual - I would expect that to many, s/he would
> become a hero, redistributing millions of rand from Microsoft and
> unscrupulous merchants to the computer buyers of SA.
>
> Not so?
>

Please get the ball rolling by getting a lawyers opion.
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