[Ubuntu-eg] Funny Micro$oft Article

[Amahdy AbdElAziz]

That's why I suggest a blacklisted vendors, it's a scary thing for OEMs also
when IT people un-recommend a brand for users even if the user wants to use
windows.

Still funny, *Disable a "security" option, to be able to use
"Linux"!!*unbalanced sentence!!

-- Amahdy AbdElAziz
http://www.amahdy.net



On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:34, Ahmed Kamal
<email.ahmedkamal at googlemail.com>wrote:

> 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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>> >> Ahmed
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