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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:44:50 +0000
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On Sunday 25 Dec 2011 19:28:35 CJoeB wrote:
> On 12/25/11 14:08, Dan Cowsill wrote:

> I can do this, but the computer isn't that old and up until today when I
> rebooted the computer by holding the power button, on reboot, the mouse
> and the keyboard worked fine.
>=20
> And although the computer is new, I've screwed the warranty because I
> removed Windows and there is only Linux on my computer.

It is worth noting for future cases like this that the warranty may not be=
=20
screwed up at all - unless the small print explicitly says so and even then=
=20
you may be still able to claim that they fix any hardware fault under the=20
warranty.

There was a woman who had removed the MSWindows OS from her new laptop and=
=20
when the keyboard failed the company that sold it to her refused to deal wi=
th=20
it without the original OS installed.

Eventually the company reneged and replaced the broken component.

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/07/03/27/1753218/hp-dishonors-warranty-if-y=
ou-
load-linux

I believe that there's more than one cases that this has happened, so remov=
ing=20
MSWindows may not nullify your legal consumer rights.

I do however as a matter of course retain the original installation just-in-
case and install Gentoo as a dual boot, if only to save myself the argument=
=20
with some poor idiot reading from a script on some service department in th=
e=20
future.  These days with massive hard drives there's enough space to keep b=
oth=20
OS.
=2D-=20
Regards,
Mick

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