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Concur with other comments re: restricted boot

Concur with other comments re: restricted boot

Posted Jan 2, 2013 2:09 UTC (Wed) by salimma (subscriber, #34460)
In reply to: Concur with other comments re: restricted boot by brianomahoney
Parent article: The H Year: 2012's Wins, Fails and Mehs

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.


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