[Discussioni] Share your operating system bundling tales with the EU

[Francesco Potortì]

Subject: [ffii] Share your operating system bundling tales with the EU
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:00:37 +0200 (CEST)
From: Office FFII e.V. <office a ffii.org>
To: news a ffii.org

[ Europe / Software / Consumer ]
============================================================= Share your
operating system bundling tales with the EU
=============================================================Berlin / Paris,
April 14th 2011 -- FFII and AFUL ask consumers affected by
operating system bundling or businesses involved in bundling to provide
their evidence to the European Competition authority.

"My choice is Debian GNU/Linux", explains FFII Vice president Rene Mages.
"Why have I been compelled to pay and erase Windows 7 at purchase time?"

The European Commission admits it was aware of the difficulties
encountered by consumers who want to purchase a PC with a non-Microsoft
operating system or without any operating system at all. But they also say
they lack evidence suggesting that this is the result of practices in
violation of EU competition rules.

"We want to crowdsource the collection of evidence", says AFUL's President
Laurent Séguin. "If the EU finds anticompetitive agreements that foreclose
competition or abuse a dominant position on the relevant market, that
would be a magic bullet."

============================================================= Commission contact
=============================================================
Submission Form: Information on competition problems affecting consumers
http://ec.europa.eu/competition/forms/consumer_form_en.html

============================================================= Links
=============================================================
Answered Written Question from MEP Jens Rohde (ALDE) to the Commission:
'The preinstallation of Microsoft Windows'
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=/EP//TEXT+WQ+E-2011-002007+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN

Article 102 on the Functioning of the European Union
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uriÎLEX:12008E102:EN:NOT

Related FFII press releases:
http://press.ffii.org/Press%20releases/Microsoft%20will%20trump%20EU%20competition%20ruling%20with%20patents
http://press.ffii.org/Press%20releases/EU%20tells%20open%20source%20to%20start%20paying%20MS%20patent%20tax

Permanent link to this press release:
https://press.ffii.org/Press%20releases/Share%20your%20operating%20system%20bundling%20tales%20with%20the%20EU

============================================================= Contact
=============================================================
FFII Office
Malmöer Str. 6
D-10439 Berlin
+49-30-41722597
Fax Service: +49-721-509663769
office at ffii.org
(German/English)

Laurent Séguin,
Président de l'AFUL Paris,
+33 (0)6 63 94 87 16
laurent.seguin at aful.org
(French/English)

Alain Coulais,
Racketiciel workgroup AFUL Paris,
+33 (0)6 20 61 43 66
alain.coulais at aful.org
(French/English)

Benjamin Henrion
FFII Brussels
+32-484-56 61 09 (mobile)
bhenrion at ffii.org
(French/English)

============================================================= About FFII
=============================================================
The FFII is a not-for-profit association registered in twenty European
countries, dedicated to the development of information goods for the
public benefit, based on copyright, free competition, open standards. More
than 1000 members, 3,500 companies and 100,000 supporters have entrusted
the FFII to act as their voice in public policy questions concerning
exclusion rights (intellectual property) in data processing.

http://www.ffii.org

============================================================= About AFUL
=============================================================
The French speaking Linux and Libre Software Users' Association (AFUL)
aims  to promote libre software and open standards usage. AFUL is a
non-profit association that gathers users, professionals, companies and
other organizations based in more than a dozen French-speaking countries
and regions (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec, French-speaking
African countries, etc.).

A recognized voice, AFUL is present in many exhibitions, conferences and
meetings. In particular, it has an active role against OS bundled sales
(Workgroup against bundled sales, racketiciel.info petition, comparative
computer vendor list bons-vendeurs-ordinateurs.info), in favor of
interoperability (AFNOR member, participation to Interoperability and
accessibility Referentials by DGME, formats-ouverts.org website, etc.), as
well as on issues concerning Author Copyrights.

http://www.aful.org



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