[ubuntu-uk] efi boot, Windows 8 and Linux

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

On 22/09/2011 13:13, Juan J. Martínez wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 13:06 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
>> On 22/09/2011 00:06, Alan Bell wrote:
>>> On 21/09/11 23:29, Bea Groves wrote:
>>>> Just read the following. Comments?
>>>>
>>> yeah, it is potentially very nasty.
>> Even more so when the next step could be to require signed keys to run
>> applications - then MS could control the hardware and the OS AND what
>> people actually run on it.
> Don't you think laws regulating anti-competitive conduct will prevent
> that to happen?
>
> Actually any judge can argue that dual boot it's a reasonable thing you
> can do with your computer, because you get different functionalities
> with different operative systems.
>
> I think Microsoft would have a problem them.
>
>
I certainly hope that will be the case, but the legal system hasn't 
exactly curbed a lot of MS's dubious practices in the past, has it?