UEFI and Windows 8: is this bad news for GNU/Linux?

Posted by scrubs on Nov 3, 2011 2:15 AM EDT
Free Software Magazine; By Gary Richmond 		Mail this story
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There are times when I think that there is a special, darkened room at Microsoft peopled by a bunch of guys who seem to have nothing better to do than sit and think up some new wheeze to nobble the opposition. The rap sheet is an inditment in itself: trusted computing, internet driving licenses, DRM, bullying hardware vendors and attempting to strong arm sovereign nation states. You wouldn’t think the list could get any bigger. It just has; but then, recidivism in incurable. It may not, as has often proved in the past, come to anything but if it does it would be problematical for GNU/Linux.

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