No More Racketware: avoid paying for software you don't want!

The goal of our action

The goal of our action is to obtain a possibility for the consumer not to pay for pre-installed software during their computing purchase, so as to remedy the current software competition distorsion (AR EN ES FR).

You can help. Act now!

• Most importantly, sign the international petition and tell you friends! (follow our Tweets).
  Choose between AR, EN, ES, FR, PT, RCF, other languages.
• Want to help?
• Further ideas for action: EN FR.
• Browse our contacts worldwide.
• Within the European Union: easy legal action! Read more: EN FR.

News

• 2012/04. Based on European law, French small claims court says imposing the purchase of the operating system is an agressive, hence forbidden, commercial pratice. This decision marks a major step: for the first time, the argument used is very direct. For more detail, see story and legal comment. This makes legal action easy in Europe.

Documentation

• Olds and news
• A list of Good Manufacturers that offer software optionality or that provide the software price in avance and refund it easily.
• Students worldwide! You too, take part in massive refund operations
  and in restoring competition among operating systems.
• International reports.
  • The Globalisation Institute (local copy, with permission): liberal think tank in Brussels calls on ending bundled sales. See also translations (French).
  • National Consumer Council (GB) : software licences contain abusive terms and conditions. See also full report (PDF), Slashdot news, BBC News article and translations (French)

Important: sign the international petition and tell your friends!