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Re:Google Found Guilty of ‘Abusing Dominant Market Position’... by jasonlotito on Monday September 14, 2015 @03:53PM (#10217095)
> I'm talking about being able to buy a computer from a manufacturer without having to pay $99 for an installation of Microsoft Windows that I explicitly do not want.

You can. You are not limited to specialty outfits as well, nor are you required to pay a lot for it, or any of the other numerous criteria you try to add on as well. Being able to buy a PC without paying for Windows or paying for an Apple product is incredibly easy for the average person today.

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Re:Google Found Guilty of ‘Abusing Dominant Market Position’... by fapjacks on Monday September 14, 2015 @10:20PM (#10218656)
No, you are shoehorned into buying a very specific model. It should be no problem whatsoever to choose any model on that site, and select "Ubuntu" for the OS, but you can't. If you go and look (and here I mean actually go and look[0]), the vast majority of machines that you can buy do not have the option to not pay for a Windows license. The choice you get is "Windows 8.1 or Windows 10".

[0] http://www.dell.com/us/p/laptops/xps-laptops

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Re:Google Found Guilty of ‘Abusing Dominant Market Position’... by dump100 on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @12:30AM (#10218947)
that is a choice Dell has made based of customer demand, sales and is no longer forced by MS to do so. MS tried this in 90s and it was major issue in the antitrust investigation
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Re:Google Found Guilty of ‘Abusing Dominant Market Position’... by fapjacks on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @01:00PM (#10221709)
... And clearly today, as well.
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