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In this particular case it's good thing :-)

In this particular case it's good thing :-)

Posted Sep 21, 2011 1:11 UTC (Wed) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877)
In reply to: In this particular case it's good thing :-) by khim
Parent article: Garrett: UEFI secure booting

> Everyone else just pays the "Microsoft tax" for their Linux computers (see above).

And they're the reason we can't have nice things. I swear, some days it seems like the smartest thing Apple ever did was make it so you could only install OSX on known-good computers.


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In this particular case it's good thing :-)

Posted Sep 21, 2011 1:12 UTC (Wed) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]

I find it amusing that, as perhaps pointed out above, locking down *everything else* is equivalent to locking down Linux (namely, if you can't use Linux on it, you're forced to buy Linux PCs to run Linux). :)

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