Linux users are organizing grass roots action against Microsoft. An Australian Linux user discovered that if you refuse to accept Microsoft’s End User License Agreement for Windows, you can return it to the person who sold you the computer for a refund, so he did. After much wrangling, they refunded the cost of Windows to him. Now, there’s a plan among Linux users to invoke this clause in the EULA en masse on February 15. Wired News reports.
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“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.”