Microsoft tries to block Linux off Windows 8 PCs

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Thomas Milne <thomas.bruce.milne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
| Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:18:46 -0400

| http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/microsoft-tries-to-block-linux-off-windows-8-pcs/9572?tag=mantle_skin%3Bcontent

That may not happen.  But it seems to be happening in the ARM world:
<http://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2012/jan/12/microsoft-confirms-UEFI-fears-locks-down-ARM/>
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