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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 01:49 AM EDT |
What is needed is for the legal system to pull its finger out and do something
about the abuse of market position and use of secret abusive contracts that make
it impossible to purchase any machine not running windows from a consumer retail
store. This isn't really a technical issue people. It is a legal problem.
Fix this issue - stop Microsoft from abusing its market position and get choice
of operating system back into the consumer market - and the whole UEFI problem
will melt away. Microsoft can only get away with this because it is known that
they can and will plant their boot on the neck of any company that dare allow
alternative operating systems to boot. Microsoft can threaten to cut off their
oxygen and destroy them. And the threat works because everyone believes the
legal system is pretty much in their pocket and will stand back and let them do
it.
You can't buy a netbook with linux on it these days offline. They completely
killed that market for linux devices. The legal system revealed itself to be
completely impotent.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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