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The market will decideThe market will decidePosted Sep 22, 2011 9:23 UTC (Thu) by dion (subscriber, #2764)Parent article: UEFI and "secure boot"
At the moment we all grudgingly pay the MS-tax for each new laptop, so there no real penalty for vendors who choose to ship only windows.
If UEFI secure boot starts being locked down by vendors, then there is suddenly a market force punishing the vendors who do that because all non-windows users will be unable to buy those machines and ignore the MS-tax.
Even if non-windows users are only 2% of the market is that a group of customers that every vendor will ignore?
Personally I'd rather have clear EU regulations that forbid locking down hardware in a way that prevents owners from re-keying and running their own software.
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