On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 22:48:50 +0000, Simon wrote in message
<42725396-018E-4453-9F90-31C2877C16CE@???>:

> Mitt Green <mitt_green@???> wrote:
>
> > They can request a refund before activating the
> > license, but will actually receive a smaller amount of
> > money than they spent, if some at all at all.
>
> I recall reading how one person, after a fight to get anything, got
> much more ! This isn't the case I was thinking of, but came up while
> searching :
> http://www.techworld.com.au/article/414500/lenovo_ordered_pay_1920_making_french_laptop_buyer_pay_windows_too/
>
> In the case I was thinking of, the guy got back the cost of a retail
> copy of Windows from the same shop - on the basis that they didn't
> have any lower priced option, and refused to reveal/provide any
> evidence of what the actual cost of the OEM version was. IIRC it was
> something like $195 or $295 !
>
> So play your cards right, and be prepared to fight your corner rather
> than accept what the shop tells you, and you could get more back than
> you expected.

..sweet. ;o)

..the one problem with Stéphane's approach, is you risk creating
case law in Microsoft et al's favor by running out of money for
appeals, litigation against these bad boy billionaires is very
expensive because they will appeal anything they don't like
"just because" they can, and if you do not appeal a bad judgment
in time, it will be left standing and form part of case law.

--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.