On 06/08/2012 11:55 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Jun 8, 2012, at 6:47 AM, Gerry Reno wrote: >> And I expect this idea of preventing other OS's from being installed on Win8 >> ARM hardware will not fly in the EU. It's >> anti-competitive. > There's no such prevention. It's just that by voluntary agreement some ARM > hardware is being manufactured with Secure Boot enabled and disabling it > isn't possible. To use other OS's requires they be capable of supporting > Secure Boot, on such hardware. That doesn't seem to be anti-competitive at > all.
No. It's entirely anti-competitive: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2012/jan/12/microsoft-confirms-UEFI-fears-locks-down-ARM/ http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
