On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 13:19:00 -0700 Colin Barnabas articulated: >History show us that _everything_ will eventually run *nix.
Perhaps, but *nix will not run everything. >Take a look at the Sony PS3 debacle. After Sony yanked support for >installing other OS's, the community ripped apart their >hypervisor in a matter of months. If these boot keys do gain any >momentum, sooner than later the community with poke holes in the >system. Which, depending on how the end user or his flunky "poke holes" in the system, may allow vendors to disallow warranty claims. The question that I have not seen answered in this thread is what FreeBSD intents to do. From what I have seen, most FreeBSD users do not use the latest versions of most hardware, so it may be a while before its user base is even effected. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"