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| Authored by: complex_number on Wednesday, June 06 2012 @ 02:20 PM EDT |
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href="http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/fedora-linux-18-will-boot-on
-uefi-hardware-with-microsofts-help.html">[www.internetnews.com]</a&g
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The article whilst covering the subject a lot better than some I've read is
making an assumption that I think might be fatally flawed.
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I have to wonder just how much longer will be able do DIY whet it comes to
making our own PC's. All Microsoft has to do is tell the likes of Gigabyte, Asus
etc that they can't sell a new Motherboard unless it has a Windows 8 license.
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The advent of secure boot and signed keys means that they are going to get far
more control of what we run on our equipment. They could tell the UEFI makers
that DIY MBO's can't have their key in them OR theirs can be the only Key
allowed.
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I think that the resellers (newegg, aria etc) will vote to have the MS key only
solution. At least that way they will continue to get some revenue.
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I just get this feeling that will happen within 18 months of the release of
Windows 8. Perhaps around the time SP1 is released.
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I really would like to be proved wrong.
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On the bright side, if Windows 8 proves to be the flop many of us here hope then
it might well be time for 'the year of the Linux Desktop'.
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Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which
is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 06 2012 @ 03:21 PM EDT |
It's been mentioned elsewhere but bears repeating.
I would like to think that the MS UEFI key will keep admins from rescuing
Windows machines, which, it seems to me, is a major reason why Windows is still
used. It can be fixed.
Well, maybe no longer. How well will the customer base tolerate this? Go buy a
new machine? Wipe and restore? Restore what, if my data can't be rescued? Move
it to the Microsoft cloud and hope there aren't more outages?
Windows becomes even more of a risk to my data.
Well, at least one person thinks getting a white box will still be possible.
Hope he's right. I hope it won't take too many bulk orders of white boxes to
break the Microsoft stranglehold.
In the meantime, it's perversely comforting to see Microsoft keep piling up the
inconveniences to its customers and making Windows harder to use. Maybe it will
put an end to the dual-boot dance and spur moves to Linux alone. Here's hoping
Windows 8 gets the same market reception as Windows phone.
And I don't suppose regulators will take notice of the fact people will have to
pay a company NOT to use its product. How does that work legally?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 06 2012 @ 04:21 PM EDT |
Article link.
From
the opinion of this humble, non-legal individual:
The ones creating the
written description problems are the Lawyers using dancing words to get patent
grants that should not be granted.
If you honestly describe your invention
so another practitioner of the art can duplicate it and the USPTO decides it
doesn't deserve a patent grant, then just maybe you should consider the
invention is not as novel and unique as you want to believe it is.
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| Authored by: Wol on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 11:49 AM EDT |
Pick-y news items?
Don't tempt me.
Cheers,
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