[tlug] PC vendors.

[Erwan Loisant <loisant@example.com>]

Hello.

First I would like to present myself, I am a french Ph.D. student working as 
a research assistant for NII (国立情報学研究所). I arrived in Tokyo in october, and I 
joined this mailing list a few days ago. I hope to be at Nomikai party in 
february...

I have a legal question, to help friends in France.

In France, it is hard to buy a blank machine from famous PC manufacturers 
(DELL, Compaq...), usually you must buy ms windows with. However, forcing to 
sell a product with an other is illegal in France. Many linux associations 
are fighting to force PC resellers to propose PCs without any OS.

I would like to know if the law in Japan is the same, and if it is easy to 
buy a blank PC from these companies and especially from DELL which is the 
leader.

Thank you for spending time to read my email.

-- 
Erwan Loisant
Ph.D. student

The grass is always greener on the other side of your sunglasses.