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

[Avi Greenbury]

Juan J. 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?
> 

Why? It's not anti-competetive per se, it's just something that can be
used to be anti-competetive.

Banning signed bootloaders on the grounds of competition would be akin
to banning torrents on the grounds of piracy.

That's not to say there aren't other reasons to ban it, though.

-- 
Avi