[GTALUG] You may already have a Windows licence and not know it …

[mwilson at Vex.Net]

Sorry for the misinformation: the non-free firmware was needed to get Wifi
to work.  (It was a Debian netinstall, so I guess my mind conflated that
with booting.)

> Znoteer wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 07:42:47PM -0400, Stewart Russell via talk
>> wrote:
>>> If the file /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM exists (it's read-only to
>>> root),
>>> there's probably a key embedded in there you can pull out with strings
>>>
>>
>> I don't seem to have that file, and I'm not surprised.  Under what
>> circumstances might one have that file on a linux system?
>
> Is it perhaps a license for installed firmware?  I have that file on an
> HP/Compaq laptop, in a fresh Debian install to a brand-new SSD.  We had to
> install some non-free firmware to get the laptop to boot.  It was all done
> in a spirit of hasty improvisation, so I don't remember which firmware it
> was.
> Way back when, the laptop was delivered with Windows 10, which I blew away
> on the original HD.  The license number for that is on a sticker on the
> bottom, and it's a different license number from the one in the MSDM file.
>
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