[ubuntu-uk] Heads up: Fedora pays Microsoft

alan c aeclist at candt.waitrose.com
Fri Jun 1 07:06:31 UTC 2012


On 01/06/12 08:02, mac wrote:
> On 1 Jun 2012, at 07:48, alan c<aeclist at candt.waitrose.com>  wrote:
>
>>   From the Bad News department:
>>
>>  Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers
>>  By Cory Doctorow May 31
>>  http://boingboing.net/2012/05/31/lockdown-freeopen-os-maker-p.html
>
> This is the sort of anti-competitive, monopolist behaviour from Microsoft that the EU should take action to stop. Again. :(

Other things being equal, (which they are not) it significantly 
affects dual boot possibilities.

-- 
alan cocks



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