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Comment by bayindirh | Hacker News Reader

You can't officially sell the computer as "Windows Compatible", and won't be able to sell it with Windows preinstalled with an OEM license, which is basically (i.e. heavily discounted) free to you as the OEM.

Plus, it doesn't protect you from Microsoft making Windows incompatible with your specific system "by accident" (See Dr.DOS incident), or sue you to oblivion by a very small clause in their licenses.

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Two can play at that game. If bundling Internet Explorer was found illegal, this should be too, and the US and EU can start fining MS billions until they stop these underhanded anti-competitive tactics.

The EU decided not to:

> In September 2016, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that "the sale of a computer equipped with pre-installed software does not in itself constitute an unfair commercial practice within the meaning of Directive 2005/29 when such an offer is not contrary to the requirements of professional diligence and does not distort the economic behaviour of [purchasers]." The Court also ruled that Directive 2005/29 does not require OEMs to include a separate price for an operating system license.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Windows

Well, just notice that this isn't "two playing that game". It's the government explicitly kicking the scammers out of the place and freeing the victims.

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