[Ubuntu-eg] Funny Micro$oft Article

[Mohammad AbuShady]

Guys, it's not a big deal, vendor will want the deal with MS, so it will
ship the changes they want and satisfy their demands, but also put a small
option in the bios to disable it, and add a small warning that doing this
isn't safe and bla bla, so they satisfy both sides, only down side is that
it'll scare few noobies that's all
all this was explained in omg ubuntu's second article about this issue
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/09/microsoft-attempt-address-windows-8-linux-worries/
On Sep 28, 2011 10:00 AM, "Ahmed Kamal" <email.ahmedkamal at googlemail.com>
wrote:
> Just that hardware vendors do not care about Linux, also MS will likely
use
> its monopolistic relationship with OEMs to prevent such a thing. You are
no
> longer free to install Ubuntu on that HP laptop, HP has to "approve" it
> first, that's the problem
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Ahmed Shams <ahmedkhattabshams at gmail.com
>wrote:
>
>> Right, but what prevents unix-like systems from getting it's keys into
>> UEFI too???
>>
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>> Ahmed
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