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Secure Boot, No Thanks

Secure Boot, No Thanks

Posted Jan 3, 2013 20:28 UTC (Thu) by efraim (subscriber, #65977)
In reply to: Secure Boot, No Thanks by dlang
Parent article: The H Year: 2012's Wins, Fails and Mehs

>> A Monopoly is not just the dominance of a field, and there's nothing wrong with being a Monopoly. It's just that if you _are_ a Monopoly, then you are not allowed to "abuse" your Monopoly status to take over other fields.

>> It's perfectly legitimate for you to use your income from your Monopoly to fund good products in other fields, you just can't do things like selling them at a loss once you are past the R&D stage and into production.

I understand your position, however I do not agree with it because I feel like many of the terms here are too ill defined to be a matter of law (for instance, what's R&D phase? Is Android in R&D phase? Is GMail? When quality control and brand control become abuse?)

I am not commenting on LWN often and this thread is pretty far from core LWN software topic, so if you feel I am veering off-topic into politics too far please say so.


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