Fedora Pays Microsoft Boot License fee.

[Stephen]

The main thing will be oem builders being able to lock the pre-installed os
into place. But that would also mean locking the bios. And there is nothing
to say that will or wont happen
On Jun 9, 2012 4:47 PM, "Derek Trotter" <expat.arizonan at gmail.com> 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 <waydavis.phx.lists at 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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