[ubuntu-uk] Heads up: Fedora pays Microsoft

[Bill Cumming]

I think that was one of the reasons for Fedora's deal with Microsoft.
Getting a user to manually change the BIOS to remove this "protection" may
be seen as a type of DRM Circumvention which can be illegal in some
countries.

Or would this not come under those laws?


On 1 June 2012 11:54, Bea Groves <beagroves at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I've sent an email on the matter to my colleagues at the Institute for
> Learning as a heads-up to an issue that may well impact on the curriculum
> offered in FE colleges as time goes on. It's worth spreading the word on
> this to all parties that might be affected by it; the more we're aware the
> more we can protest.
>
>
> On 01/06/12 11:28, paul sutton wrote:
>
>> On 01/06/12 07:48, alan c 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<http://boingboing.net/2012/05/31/lockdown-freeopen-os-maker-p.html>
>>>
>>>  Ok forwarded the link to my local MP and while the issues are technical
>> i have tried to argue or at least say that we should have fairness and
>> if we want to run other systems we should be able to.
>>
>> Also made a point in saying thast many universities / industries use
>> Linux for their work,  as well as Linux being used for film CGI,
>>
>> Not sure if this helps but I really don't know what else i can do,   A
>> lot of users probably won't even notice,  until it's too late.
>>
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
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