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Not at all "well known"[ Parent ] (none / 0) (#34)
by Anonymous User on Wed Jan 25, 2006 at 05:34:31 AM PDT

>but my point remains that in THIS case, the
>bundled OS license is pretty well known.

I would say that most people buying a computer doesn't have a clue really and have no knowledge of such things at all. You even admit this later on when you write that "The average consumer probably isn't aware of the difference," which I agree with completely.

>And consumers not doing the research to better
>understand what it is they are getting (or
>failing to get) is something I can't really
>sympathize with,

The main problem is that in many cases, the consumer has no idea what he needs to get infomration about to start with and have a hard time to get it and so on. That is of course why in many countries, consumer sales laws put the burden on the seller to informa of such things that are not evident, can be surprising and different from what one might expect and so on. It is also why many types of sales practises are not allowed by the law, not sure about these specific cases discussed here and don't think there have been cases either.

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