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>  = Italy: High Court shoots down Windows tax =
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> [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140912-01.en.html ]
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> Italy's High Court has struck a blow to the practice of forcing non-free
> software on buyers of PCs and laptops. According to La Repubblica[1],
> the court ruled on Thursday that a laptop buyer was entitled to receive
> a refund for the price of the Microsoft Windows license on 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 slammed this this practice as "monopolistic in
> tendency". It also highlighted that the practice of bundling means that
> end users are forced into using additional non-free applications due to
> compatibility and interoperability issues, whether they wanted these
> programs or not
>
>     "This decision is both welcome and long overdue", said Karsten
>     Gerloff, President of the Free Software Foundation Europe. "No
>     vendor should be allowed to cram non-free software down the throats
>     of users."
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> Free Software Foundation Europe has been long been fighting the "Windows
> tax", as the involuntary payment to Microsoft is often called. The
> organisation maintains a wiki page[2] with advice for consumers who want
> to avoid funding the development of non-free software, and accounts from
> people who have returned the licenses they were forced to buy.
>
> In response to the ruling, the Italian authorities should discourage the
> bundling of software and hardware, and take practical steps to ensure
> that consumers can really exercise their freedom of choice. Governments
> around Europe should take the same steps, and encourage consumers
> everywhere to install and use Free Software[3].
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>     "This practice of forced distribution needs to end," says Gerloff.
>     "We hope that the Italian authorities will turn this ruling into a
>     real win for consumers, and ensure that computer buyers can choose
>     their device with any operating system they want, or none."
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> The number of the ruling is 19161 / 2014.
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>  1.
> http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2014/09/11/news/hp_perde_causa_il_software_preinstallato_indesiderato_rimborsabile-95533181/
>  2. https://wiki.fsfe.org/WindowsTaxRefund
>  3. http://fsfe.org/about/basics/freesoftware.en.html
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