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

[paul sutton]

On 23/09/11 20:25, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> 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.
>
Well as we can't get it banned easily lets find a way to educate people
properly about it so they know about it and how it may affect them

Paul