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| Authored by: Tkilgore on Thursday, May 31 2012 @ 11:29 PM EDT |
I strongly agree with you about the damage this will do to Intel, probably to
the entire x86 architecture and not just to Intel, unless AMD refuses to play,
which one would doubt.
But does anyone know more about this? Some questions come to mind immediately:
1. What if a Fedora user wants to use a locally compiled kernel?
2. What about people running the rest of the Linux distros?
3. What is the $99 mentioned in the article? Is this $99 for the right of Fedora
the distro to use UEFI booting? Or is it for the right of everyone who installs
Fedora? Or is it a per seat $99? Or what?
4. What happens now to the ability to turn off the "secure boot"
feature on x86 computers, which Microsoft has allegedly put in its standard
specifications for Microsoft-certified UEFI?
Lots of questions. I guess we have to wait for answers. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: macrorodent on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 12:37 AM EDT |
I wonder if someon familiar with the legalities could make a case of this with
some antitrust authorities? This is a clear case of limiting competition! Maybe
EU's "Steely Neelie" (Neelie Kroes) should be alerted?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 08:08 AM EDT |
Any one remember what happened to pay toilets? Perhaps M$
will try that next. Then they will get what they truly
deserve.
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| Authored by: marcosdumay on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 04:04 PM EDT |
Up to now, I can't think on any other company that had a partneship with MS and
didn't regret it (if it survived long enough), except for Intel.
I'm sure MS is looking for a way to fix that.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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