On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 12:03 -0400, Jay Sulzberger wrote: > Adam, just a short bald claim: > > In the United States and Europe there is a large body of statute > law, regulatory rulings, and court decisions which say that yes, > a large powerful company cannot take certain actions to impede > competitors. In particular entering into a compact to make > Fedora harder to install on every single x86 home computer sold > is not allowed. Or once was not allowed. Recently neither > regulatory bodies, nor courts, have enforced these old once > settled laws and regulations.
I'm aware of this. So are Red Hat's lawyers, I'm sure. I am inferring from the stuff posted by Matthew so far that they believe there is no basis for a legal complaint in Microsoft's behaviour in this area. I certainly can't see one myself, though of course I am not a lawyer; as I've already noted, it's very hard to characterize Microsoft's behaviour as 'impeding competitors'. They have done nothing at all to prevent anyone else from complying with the Secure Boot specification. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
