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Authored by: pem on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 09:21 PM EDT
And there's no legitimate reason to select hardware that prevents the user from exercising control over their own property.
I never said there was. But, especially given Microsoft's string pulling, there are a lot of reasons for Canonical to worry about some of their hardware partners finding themselves in this boat, and some court somewhere in the world finding that, because Canonical is a partner to the hardware vendor, they have to cough up the key. Said court might even find this way based on a complaint from some random user, even if the FSF appears in court and explains that's not what the license means.

I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to fund a vendor to screw up and then fund a person to complain.

And if I were in Canonical's position, I wouldn't use a GPL v3 bootloader.

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