Concur with other comments re: restricted boot [LWN.net]

Concur with other comments re: restricted boot

Posted Jan 1, 2013 2:05 UTC (Tue) by brianomahoney (subscriber, #6206)
In reply to: Concur with other comments re: restricted boot by dskoll
Parent article: The H Year: 2012's Wins, Fails and Mehs

If you are in Europe write to Commissioner Joaquín Almunia, European Competition Commissioner, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel,BELGIQUE/BELGIË, Fax: +32 02 29 80 999, who succeeded Frau Nellie Kroes as Competition Commissioner, they already have new process against M$, and draconian powers like 10% world wide earnings per day for non-compliance.

BTW, dont worry about ARM, M$ has almost 0 market share in the ARM marketplace and is unlikely to get any any time soon ... its a whole different ball game, If you are a 86-ish mo-bo vendor and piss M$ off you are in a world of hurt, in the mobile/pad/ESPECIALLY automobile (20-25% of the embedded market, entertainment especially multi-seat ... think planes (the A380 has 500+ seats/plane) and they are much more worried about FAA/EU type approval than anythin g M$ can do.

Die besten Wünsche für ein glückliches und erfolgreiches neues Jahr aus der Schweiz, Brian

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Concur with other comments re: restricted boot

Posted Jan 2, 2013 2:09 UTC (Wed) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link]

The worry about ARM is not Restricted Boot per se, it's that most other vendors implement similar or even more draconian boot lockdowns.

And the most open widely-deployed platform (Android) let manufacturers do what they want regarding this -- it'd be nice if they standardize this but require a greater degree of openness -- similar to what the Nexus devices currently offer.