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Authored by: pem on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 09:21 PM EDT |
And there's no legitimate reason to select hardware that prevents
the user from exercising control over their own property.
I never
said there was. But, especially given Microsoft's string pulling, there are a
lot of reasons for Canonical to worry about some of their hardware partners
finding themselves in this boat, and some court somewhere in the world
finding that, because Canonical is a partner to the hardware vendor, they have
to cough up the key. Said court might even find this way based on a complaint
from some random user, even if the FSF appears in court and explains that's not
what the license means.
I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to fund a vendor to
screw up and then fund a person to complain.
And if I were in Canonical's
position, I wouldn't use a GPL v3 bootloader.
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- I call FUD - Authored by: jbb on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 11:18 PM EDT
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