[Ubuntu-be] Win8 will block dual-boot?

[wouter Vandenneucker]

There was something similar a few months ago with a Cell Phone that was locked.The judge decided that the phone was designed for "all" mobile providers, therefore the mobile provider "restricted" the use of the device although it was intended to do more.Result: every person who wanted the device to be unlocked could ship it for free and the company had to unlock them..
Let us hope we get a better result in this case though..
Grts

Wouter Vandenneucker
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:35:26 +0200
From: sulumar op gmail.com
To: ubuntu-be op lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-be] Win8 will block dual-boot?



  


    
    
  
  
    I have doubts on the legality of that kind of strategie microsoft is
    trying to pull up

    

    

    On 2011-09-23 22:32, wouter Vandenneucker wrote:
    
      
      
        EPFSUG is
          already talking about shouting it out to some MEP's in order
          to make sure the rights of the users are guaranteed..
        I
            guess this isn't the last we heard from it. (And that's a
            good thing!)

          

          
            Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:16:48 +0200

            From: vincent op mangelschots.org

            To: ubuntu-be op lists.ubuntu.com

            Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-be] Win8 will block dual-boot?

            

            Microsoft does require that the hardware ships with UEFI
            secure boot enabled but it also states that it will support
            the unsecured boot process. If so then it's up to the
            hardware vendors to make it optional. 
            

            
            http://tweakers.net/nieuws/76961/microsoft-secure-boot-blokkeert-andere-besturingssystemen-niet.html (dutch)

              

              On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 5:31
                PM, Pieter Vande Wyngaerde <pietervandewyngaerde op gmail.com>
                wrote:

                
                  UEFI secure booting (part 2)  via planet.debian.net:

                  

                  very good good article @ http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/5850.html

                  (Part 1 here: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/5552.html)

                  

                  from the article:

                  These are the facts:

                  

                  Windows 8 certification requires that hardware ship
                  with UEFI secure

                  boot enabled.

                  Windows 8 certification does not require that the user
                  be able to

                  disable UEFI secure boot, and we've already been
                  informed by hardware

                  vendors that some hardware will not have this option.

                  Windows 8 certification does not require that the
                  system ship with any

                  keys other than Microsoft's.

                  A system that ships with UEFI secure boot enabled and
                  only includes

                  Microsoft's signing keys will only securely boot
                  Microsoft operating

                  systems.

                  

                  ...

                  

                  The truth is that Microsoft's move removes control
                  from the end user

                  and places it in the hands of Microsoft and the
                  hardware vendors. The

                  truth is that it makes it more difficult to run
                  anything other than

                  Windows. The truth is that UEFI secure boot is a
                  valuable and

                  worthwhile feature that Microsoft are misusing to gain
                  tighter control

                  over the market. And the truth is that Microsoft
                  haven't even

                  attempted to argue otherwise.

                  
                    

                      

                      

                      On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Jurgen Gaeremyn

                      <jurgen.gaeremyn op pandora.be>
                      wrote:

                      > Have a read here:

                      >

                      > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/will-windows-8-block-users-from-dual-booting-linux-microsoft-wont-say/10772

                      >

                      > Grtz,

                      > Jurgen.

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