Some people call Linus Torvalds "rude". I call him "honest".

[Tyler Aviss]

By having a BIOS that only a boots "signed" OS, and MS controls the signinf
authority.
On Mar 9, 2013 7:47 AM, "Antonio Sun" <antoniosun-N9AOi2cAC9ZBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

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> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:07 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>wrote:
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> Microsoft really is at war with Linux.  Giving them the "keys to the
>> kingdom" would seem quite foolish.  Better to force a new Linux-wide
>> signing authority to be created.
>
> . . .
>
>> Remember Microsoft's telling us we should trust ActiveX over the web?
>> After all, all ActiveX modules were signed.  But all that proved was that
>> Microsoft believed that the module it signed came from the source who had
>> paid a license fee and agreed to license terms.  No verification of the
>> code was involved.  Punishment for a discovered violation was loss of the
>> license AFTER THE FACT.  No sandboxing or any other technical control.
>> This went on for years.  Pathetic.
>>
>
> What's that Microsoft Window8's booting all about?
>
> I have to admit that I haven't been paying attention to news from Windows
> world, except that all Microsoft's decisions are becoming more and more
> insane, it's new logo, UI, booting, etc, which explains why the new
> Window's products has now become the **biggest failure* . (*Ref:
> http://www.zdnet.com/five-reasons-why-windows-8-has-failed-7000012104/, "The
> numbers are in and they don't lie. Windows 8 market adoption numbers are
> well behind Microsoft's greatest previous operating system failure, Vista.",
> "*neither Windows 8 nor its cousins Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 even
> appear on NetApplication's mobile and tablet reports for February 2013. How
> bad is that? Android 1.6, with is tiny 0.02% of the market, does make the
> list*.")
>
> So back to to Window8's booting, when I first heard it, I knew Microsoft
> is clearly waging wars against Linux, and I was thinking the Linux world
> must have ways to retaliate. Now that it's becoming an unresolved issue,
> I'm wondering, how it can be technically possible for Microsoft to control
> a PC only boots into its Windows, but not other OSs?
>
> Thanks
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