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Linux users file EU complaint against Microsoft (Reuters)

Linux users file EU complaint against Microsoft (Reuters)

Posted Mar 26, 2013 22:33 UTC (Tue) by russell (subscriber, #10458)
In reply to: Linux users file EU complaint against Microsoft (Reuters) by s0f4r
Parent article: Linux users file EU complaint against Microsoft (Reuters)

not misguided on the arm platform. win8 certification requires that it can't be disabled.


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Linux users file EU complaint against Microsoft (Reuters)

Posted Mar 26, 2013 22:50 UTC (Tue) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

There's a large number of vendors in the ARM market shipping locked-down devices. Microsoft are, currently, nowhere near the largest of them. The only difference I'm really able to see there is that Microsoft impose this requirement on OEMs, but even then you'd think that the only people with standing would be the OEMs.

Linux users file EU complaint against Microsoft (Reuters)

Posted Mar 27, 2013 4:28 UTC (Wed) by s0f4r (subscriber, #52284) [Link]

The original article mentions only x86 being part of the complaint filed with the EU, not arm.

Linux users file EU complaint against Microsoft (Reuters)

Posted Mar 27, 2013 22:21 UTC (Wed) by geofft (subscriber, #59789) [Link]

Can you file a complaint against Apple too? I would really like to boot Linux on my iPad. I don't think I even know anyone with a Surface.

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