From the Bad News department:
Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to
boot on users' computers
By Cory Doctorow May 31
http://boingboing.net/2012/05/31/lockdown-freeopen-os-maker-p.html
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alan cocks
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ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
On 01/06/12 08:02, mac wrote:
On 1 Jun 2012, at 07:48, alan caecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote:
From the Bad News department:
Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on
users' computers
By Cory Doctorow May 31
Does this merely concern HP and Dell machines or will it affect my cut
price bare bones machines I order from Novatech?
Patrick Mulvey
On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 08:06 +0100, alan c wrote:
On 01/06/12 08:02, mac wrote:
On 1 Jun 2012, at 07:48, alan caecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote:
From
opinion) a
slippery slope to more restricted implementations in the future.
From: surfer
Sent: 01/06/2012 09:16
To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Heads up: Fedora pays Microsoft
Does this merely concern HP and Dell machines or will it affect my cut
price bare bones machines I order
it will eventually affect everything on a new motherboard, including
bare bones computers, system76 computers, the lot.
Ubuntu can either also go with Microsoft as the gatekeeper and pay the
$99 (which is trivial and in any event goes to verisign (which Mark
Shuttleworth may or may not have an
On 01/06/12 07:48, alan c wrote:
From the Bad News department:
Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to
boot on users' computers
By Cory Doctorow May 31
http://boingboing.net/2012/05/31/lockdown-freeopen-os-maker-p.html
Ok forwarded the link to my local MP and
Hi!
I've sent an email on the matter to my colleagues at the Institute for
Learning as a heads-up to an issue that may well impact on the
curriculum offered in FE colleges as time goes on. It's worth spreading
the word on this to all parties that might be affected by it; the more
we're aware
I think that was one of the reasons for Fedora's deal with Microsoft.
Getting a user to manually change the BIOS to remove this protection may
be seen as a type of DRM Circumvention which can be illegal in some
countries.
Or would this not come under those laws?
On 1 June 2012 11:54, Bea Groves
Ubuntu Talk
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Heads up: Fedora pays Microsoft
I think that was one of the reasons for Fedora's deal with Microsoft.
Getting a user to manually change the BIOS to remove this protection may
be seen as a type of DRM Circumvention which can be illegal in some
countries.
Or would
