Linux users file EU complaint against Microsoft (Reuters) [LWN.net]

Linux users file EU complaint against Microsoft (Reuters)

Posted Mar 27, 2013 1:17 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
In reply to: Linux users file EU complaint against Microsoft (Reuters) by mjg59
Parent article: Linux users file EU complaint against Microsoft (Reuters)

> I haven't yet seen a single credible report of a user being unable to disable Secure Boot on a system.
On an x86-64 system, that is.

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Linux users file EU complaint against Microsoft (Reuters)

Posted Mar 27, 2013 1:23 UTC (Wed) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link] (2 responses)

Full marks for ignoring context.

Linux users file EU complaint against Microsoft (Reuters)

Posted Mar 27, 2013 8:46 UTC (Wed) by pjm (guest, #2080) [Link] (1 responses)

(I thought it was a reasonable clarification to make, and shouldn't be met with sarcasm: UEFI secure boot is of interest beyond the specifics of the original article.)

Linux users file EU complaint against Microsoft (Reuters)

Posted Mar 27, 2013 9:13 UTC (Wed) by pjm (guest, #2080) [Link]

As I've just defended a statement of the obvious on the grounds that not all readers will be intimitely familiar with these matters, I'll similarly point out that mjg59 would be the prototypical example of someone intimitely familiar with these matters — which may be why he wasn't impressed at what might come across as trying to teach one's grandmother to suck eggs.