Unfair competition

[Edward avanti]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Ernest Doub <hideserted at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Nathan Bahn <nathan.bahn at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Tim Hanson <tjhanson at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> On Tuesday, September 27, 2011 12:34:22 pm Nathan Bahn wrote:
>>> > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 3:16 PM, David Fletcher <dave at thefletchers.net
>>> >wrote:
>>> > > The thread "Windows 8's use of the UEFI Secure Boot" has been
>>> referred
>>> > > to the Vice-President of the European Commision
>>> > > http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/almunia/index_en.htm
>>> > > where the word "antitrust" appears six times.
>>> > >
>>> > > Other members of the Linux community in Europe may like to contact
>>> > > Joachim Almunia themselves about this matter. Hopefully other regions
>>> of
>>> > > the world will have similar bodies intended to defend freedom.
>>> > >
>>> > > Dave
>>> >
>>> > I'm afraid that I don't get the joke.....
>>> >
>>> > :-(
>>> Joke? Please explain.
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>> The 1st sentence makes no sense; so if it's not a joke, then what is it?
>> I certainly don't know.
>> --
>> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
>> See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html &
>> http://www.libreoffice.org/ (Nathan Bahn)
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>> A.  Makes perfect sense if you have been following the thread from the
> beginning.
> B.  It isn't a joke.
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maybe the people who think this joke  only use one internet medium and thats
ubuntu, they need to dramatically expand their horizon and see a big world
out there in IT, it does exist, ubuntu doesnt even measure in percentage,
its a drop in a tiny puddle, compred to the world size ocean of lists and
forums and IT news out there



> Concerns have been raised about dual-boot configuration machines and the
> ability to install Linux on new motherboards employing the UEFI Secure Boot
> technology.
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RedHat are loading their shotguns on this already, guess we'll see
anti-trust case soon enough in U.S,
New Zealand and I think Australia competition  watchdogs are looking into as
well.



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