<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 10:20 AM, David Fletcher <<a href="mailto:dave@thefletchers.net">dave@thefletchers.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 10:02 +0100, Colin Law wrote: > The question is whether, in the future, you may have no choice. > > Colin > </div>Surely if I continue as I do, and buy PC components to build my own computers, the motherboard will be provided with whatever is needed? Don't know about laptops though. Any possibility of another antitrust case in the making? </blockquote></div>-- This looks like just the sort of thing that got Micro$oft in trouble with the EU previously. If their response is the same this time as before they will pay a fine and make changes under court order. In the interim, everybody suffers. Only way to nip it in the bud is for somebody to have them enjoined before the fact. Since that isn't likely to happen they will perpetrate a pre-emptive strike on other operating systems such as Linux and Android. ED <a href="http://linuxcounter.net/cert/544489.png" target="_blank"></a>Accidental deaths by firearms account for less than 1% of the 30,000. There are three times as many medical mistake deaths in the US than there are accidental gun deaths. Perhaps we need safety locks on doctors and nurses? <a href="http://linuxcounter.net/cert/544489.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://linuxcounter.net/cert/544489.png"></a>