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LaminatorX
on Saturday March 08 2014, @11:10PM
from the Dude,-you're-getting-a-bill! dept.
from the Dude,-you're-getting-a-bill! dept.
lhsi writes:
"Mozilla are investigating reports that Dell is charging customers £16 to install the Firefox browser, according to The Register.
Mozilla's trademark policy says that you can't charge for distributing unaltered binaries of the software.
According to the BBC, Dell said that the money was being charged for the time and labour involved.
"In this particular situation, the customer would not be charged for the Mozilla Firefox software download, rather the fee would cover the time and labour involved for factory personnel to load a different image than is provided on the system's standard configuration."
A preliminary consultation with legal teams has stated at Mozilla, but is at an early stage."
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(Score: 2) by forsythe on Saturday March 08 2014, @11:49PM
Why would it be? Mozilla hasn't paid Dell anything to install it (though they possibly will after these talks), and if Dell put it in for free, they couldn't charge £16 for installation later.
Or were you thinking that Dell had some kind of incentive to make their standard software image a user-friendly experience? That's just crazy talk.