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