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

[Paul Sutton]

On 22/09/11 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.

by which time the system will be set in and those who think that IE is 
the internet will simply not care as long as it works, until they want 
to actually do something different by which time it will be too late.
> Regards,
>
> Juanjo
>
>

Who said judges were reasonable, we

Paul


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