On: Lenovo hit with lawsuit over Superfish snafu

[_pmf_]

If Microsoft had any residues of a spinal cord, they should react with a steep increase in license fees for Lenovo, otherwise it's setting a precedent that any vendor can mess with OS internals as they like.

[mcintyre1994 → _pmf_]

Wouldn't this trigger antitrust craziness if framed as an increased license fee for their choice of pre-installed programs?

[LLWM → _pmf_]

Fining vendors for which software they choose to bundle is a terrible precedent to set and a terrible idea in general. Firefox uses its own cert store too.