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The Software Freedom Law Center has an interesting article about the Windows Hardware Certification Requirements: It wants hardware vendors producing ARM-based devices running Windows 8 to disallow the installation of alternative operating systems, using UEFI to lock the device.
People have been warning this might happen. Until now, Microsoft used to say "no, we're all about choice". Guess what.
Via LWN.
posted at: 18:26 | path: /en/computers/linux | permalink