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alkonaut on March 6, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dell UK is charging £16.25 to Install Firefox, Moz...

If the problem is the binaries being installed and shipped, that can be easily circumvented by dell installing a downloader stub that simply downloads and installs Firefox for the customer when the computer is first started. The charge would be for the setup of that automatic installer process.

scott_w on March 6, 2014 [–]

Nope, you're still distributing, just in a more elaborate way to try and evade the trademark agreement, which courts don't look too kindly on.

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