Re: Microsoft may lock out other OSes with Windows 10

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On 27 March 2015 at 23:26, Pete Travis <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/27/2015 03:30 PM, Mickey wrote:
>> Is this true with Linux, Fedora ?  I though Secure Boot was overcome as a
>> problem.
>>
>>
>> http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/03/23/microsoft-may-lock-out-other-oses-with-windows-10/?intcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obnetwork
>
> I'm not worried about this at all.  It just says that Microsoft *might not
> require* the option to allow users to disable.  I don't think any OEMs are
> going to love the marketing benefits of mandatory SecureBoot more than they
> like the business of their large customers that don't want it for $reasons,
> and they aren't going to be producing different hardware for retail and OEM
> because it just doesn't make business sense to do that.  Also, we have shim.
>

Differential pricing, if a menu option can be disabled it can be monetized.

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