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Lawsuits might be pointed the other way

Posted Mar 31, 2008 6:42 UTC (Mon) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803)
In reply to: Lawsuits might be pointed the other way by dark
Parent article: A creative example of the value of free drivers

I doubt it.  A "business decision" does not legally negate that the features were advertised
to work with XP.


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Lawsuits might be pointed the other way

Posted Mar 31, 2008 9:39 UTC (Mon) by jamesh (subscriber, #1159) [Link]

I wouldn't be surprised if they just advertised the features and listed "minimum system
requirements".  I doubt they'd advertise a card as supporting exactly one version of Windows.

Lawsuits might be pointed the other way

Posted Mar 31, 2008 11:21 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

I doubt they'd advertise a card as supporting exactly one version of Windows.

Why not? How is it different from supporting exactly one OS?

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