&gt; Add to that, that they do not care about copyright and license issues and just ship their ISOs with pre-installed Oracle Java and Adobe Flash packages and several multimedia codec packages which infringe patents and may therefore not be distributed freely at all in countries like the US.<p>Seriously, with the rotten-ness of the US patent&#x2F;copyright&#x2F;political system, it&#x27;s better for mankind to just say &quot;ok, US users can&#x27;t get this, but everyone else can&quot;.<p>E.g. many European banks do this for &quot;US persons&quot; - they simply cannot get accounts because the legal risks are just too high.<p>Edit: It&#x27;s not just banks. E.g. BMW Group (and likely other huge non-US corps with US subsidiaries) refuse to allow US persons to look at financial statements, again due to regulatory hassle.