[ubuntu-uk] Heads up: Fedora pays Microsoft

[surfer]

Does this merely concern HP and Dell machines or will it affect my cut
price bare bones machines I order from Novatech?

Patrick Mulvey


On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 08:06 +0100, alan c wrote:
> 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
>