On 22/09/2011 13:13, Juan J. MartÃnez 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?
Actually any judge can argue that dual boot it's a reasonable thing you
can do with your computer, because you get different functionalities
with different operative systems.
I think Microsoft would have a problem them.
I certainly hope that will be the case, but the legal system hasn't
exactly curbed a lot of MS's dubious practices in the past, has it?
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