Am 07.07.2012 14:46, schrieb Carroll Grigsby:
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 08:58:31 -0300 Itamar Reis Peixoto itamar@ispbrasil.com.br wrote:
I think we are bigger enough to say no and buy only hardware compatible.
Good luck with that! I've been thinking about replacing this computer with something newer, so when I was in my local computer store yesterday, I asked if they had any motherboards or systems that did not have this UEFI/Microsoft crap installed. Nope. None. Nil. Zilch. Nada. Ain't no such critter. All gone. It's hiding with Judge Crater and Jimmy Hoffa. You get the message...
you should realize that UEFI has origin nothing to do with Microsoft and secure boot, all my workstations are supporting UEFI and are completly microsoft-free and were even shipped with a HP branded Debian
Micorsoft is NOT in teh position to close the x86 market only for them because if the would try it history repeats and these days the EU would be the next killing their business in whole europe