[Ubuntu-eg] Funny Micro$oft Article

[Ahmed Kamal]

except that almost certainly "some" vendors will not put that disable bios
option, which is why it is a big deal as M. Garrett confirms

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Mohammad AbuShady <coalwater5 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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