Tench,
I don't plan on 'taking' a free PC from anyone, but I wonder if there aren't more insidious agenda's by those free box distributors.
First and foremost there WILL be a plethora of forced advertising on a free PC.
Secondly, the "contract" that a giftee [not a consumer, they didn't buy anything - does this bypass consumer protection laws?] assumes when taking delivery of a free box, probably requires certain activities for the "free" box. Can an end-user wipe the disk(s) and run his/her own software? like remove windows and rely on linux? delete any/all "boxmakers" applications, files, dll's etc etc?
Thirdly [if I am counting correctly], the boxmaker *may* [probably, and most certainly] be monitoring the use of the free PC, and keeping tabs on user activities, and especially what they view on the web, amount of time spent on a given site, and much more. This information, of course, would be easily collected, and transferred to a "home" site daily, or more frequently, as the end-user was accessing the internet.
Just a thought. |
