Re: Fedora Pays Microsoft Boot License fee.

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Author: Eric Shubert
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Fedora Pays Microsoft Boot License fee.
I don't see how that would be a problem. Please reference exact part of
the article which leads you to believe that.

BL, there's a lot of misinformation about this. I don't think it's
anything to be concerned about.

--
-Eric 'shubes'

On 06/09/2012 04:47 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
> I just don't like the idea of buying a uefi motherboard and not being
> able to run the OS I want to on it. Maybe I will want to install an OS
> that predates uefi. According to the dangerous prototypes article, it
> looks like that could be a problem if the manufacturer of the
> motherboard doesn't like the particular OS I'm trying to install.
>
> If I'm missing something, please let me know.
>
> thanks
>
> On 6/9/2012 15:53, Wayne Davis wrote:
>> Excellent. I'm glad it IS nothing of note.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 06/09/2012 09:01 AM, Dazed_75 wrote:
>>> As stated, they are not paying M$, they are paying Verisign a TOTAL
>>> of $99 for a certificate they can use to sign their software. This is
>>> not worth the time to discuss it.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Wayne Davis
>>> < <mailto:waydavis.phx.lists@gmail.com>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     http://dangerousprototypes.com/2012/06/04/fedora-pays-m-boot-tax-to-access-consumers-hardware/

>>>
>>>
>>>     Curious to see what the take is on this amongst the PLUG users.
>>>     Is this a lot about nothing or the beginnings of a real problem?
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