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<h2>Italian Court supports unbundling of software and hardware</h2>
<p>When buying a laptop, it can be difficult to avoid paying for a Microsoft
Windows license since many laptops come bundled with one. This “Windows Tax”
Windows licence since many laptops come bundled with one. This “Windows Tax”
has artificially increased hardware prices for Free Software users who do not
want to use Microsoft's operating system. We as Free Software users want to
support the development of Free Software instead of non-free software like
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<p><a href="/news/2014/news-20140912-01.html">Italy's High Court ruled</a> that
a laptop buyer was entitled to receive a refund for the price of the Microsoft
Windows license he was forced to purchase with his computer. The judges sharply
Windows licence he was forced to purchase with his computer. The judges sharply
criticised the practice of selling PCs only together with a non-free operating
system as “a commercial policy of forced distribution”. The court considered
this practice as “monopolistic in tendency”. It also highlighted that the
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ European-wide solution to the problem.</p>
<p newsteaser="yes">Often there is a tendency in the media and also from us to
concentrate on the bad news about Free Software usage in the public
administration. In this edition, we will concentrate on good examples from last
month instead. So there are good news concerning Free Software office suites:
The Austria's Bundesrechenzentrum, the federal government-owned
month instead. So there is good news concerning Free Software office suites:
Austria's Bundesrechenzentrum, the federal government-owned
computing centre, <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/103311">praises the
wide range of application uses of Apache OpenOffice</a>. They appreciate that
the “solution can be adapted to the data centre's needs, integrated in its
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Local Health Authority, which installed the office suite on 600 PCs.</p>
administration is using a Free Software office suite on 500,000 desktops</a>.
Although they said switching to Free Software was hard, they were able to
handle the problems. The project's success is partly due to two contracts the
ministries has with ICT service providers. The contracts entail support for 260
ministries have with ICT service providers. The contracts entail support for 260
Free Software applications, and the support team ensures that patches made for
the ministries are contributed back to the software projects.</p>
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ supporting the manifesto to give their users these rights! At the moment,
version 2 <a href="http://udm.branchable.com/index.en.html">is published as a
draft on a wiki allowing public comments</a>.</p>
<p>We ask all Free Software supporters to give feedback to the manifesto, so it
<p>We ask all Free Software supporters to give feedback on the manifesto, so it
can be further improved upon, and we can decide whether we want to support it
as FSFE. Please give feedback yourself, discuss the manifesto <a
href="/contact/community.html">on our discussion lists</a>, and ask other Free