[ubuntu-uk] efi boot, Windows 8 and Linux

[John Oliver]

On 23/09/11 20:33, paul sutton wrote:
> On 23/09/11 20:25, Avi Greenbury wrote:
>> Juan J. wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 13:06 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
>>>> On 22/09/2011 00:06, Alan Bell wrote:
>>>>> On 21/09/11 23:29, Bea Groves wrote:
>>>>>> Just read the following. Comments?
>>>>>>
>>>>> yeah, it is potentially very nasty.
>>>> Even more so when the next step could be to require signed keys to
>>>> run applications - then MS could control the hardware and the OS
>>>> AND what people actually run on it.
>>> Don't you think laws regulating anti-competitive conduct will prevent
>>> that to happen?
>>>
>> Why? It's not anti-competetive per se, it's just something that can be
>> used to be anti-competetive.
>>
>> Banning signed bootloaders on the grounds of competition would be akin
>> to banning torrents on the grounds of piracy.
>>
>> That's not to say there aren't other reasons to ban it, though.
>>
> Well as we can't get it banned easily lets find a way to educate people
> properly about it so they know about it and how it may affect them
>
> Paul
>
>
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Is that not anti-competitive in the same way that the supposed 'secret 
API' was deemed anti-competitive (although that did turn out to not exist).



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*John Oliver*
jp.oliver at ntlworld.com
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