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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 11:52 PM EDT |
Yes!
Let's have Microsoft's boot lock on consumers' hardware deemed uncompetitive and
removed in Europe.
How Microsoft, a software provider, can assert control over hardware owned by
the buyer is beyond me.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 27 2013 @ 04:34 AM EDT |
All you have to do in the EC is to go to a store, and ask for a computer that
will
run Linux. If they sell it, and it then turns out that as a result of how
the
computer was built running Linux is impossible, then you can ask for your
money back. Maybe manufacturers will learn if enough people do that.
On the other hand, you should be able to run Linux on any Macintosh
without
problems (Macs with Retina display possibly excluded until Linux
supports it
properly - might already be working). That would mean a computer
that doesn't
run Linux isn't anti-competitive, but just not competitive
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Authored by: tiger99 on Wednesday, March 27 2013 @ 05:32 AM EDT |
LinkRich
ard Edwards, a principal analyst at research firm Ovum, said: "I can't see too
many purchasers of Windows 8 calling foul over this.
"Microsoft will
argue that the reason the technology has been developed is to provide enhanced
security." Well, he would say that, wouldn't he? Ovum are a typical
M$ shill, like many so-called "researchers".
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Authored by: darkonc on Wednesday, March 27 2013 @ 10:21 AM EDT |
Wasn't there a Microsoft memo many years ago (showed up on Groklaw in the mid
2000's) where an upper level executive (possibly Gates himself) mused about
using the boot process to lock Linux out of the PC market? Does anybody else
remember the memo? Can anybody find it again?
I think that the one memo
would go a long way to exposing UEFI as an anti-competitive move with potential
security implications -- as opposed to the other way 'round. --- Powerful,
committed communication. Touching the jewel within each person and bringing it
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