IMHO because the alternative would be to not have Linux booting at all if secure booting is enabled and which is likely to be the default with windows 8 provided systems.
Posted May 31, 2012 15:02 UTC (Thu) by hitmark (guest, #34609)
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Question is if one has more of a leg to stand on with or without the implementation. In the end i guess we end up with the age old "open source vs free(dom) software" debate.