[Bradford] UEFI and other Microsoft nasties

[Robert Burrell Donkin]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Brian A <bradlug at techchico.org.uk> wrote:

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> Microsoft is not know for shirking when it comes to 'evil'. Who knows, but
> they could lean on  hardware providers to get them to make the installation
> of other operating systems very hard/impossible to do.

Know your enemy :-)

M$ is not the primary driver behind this technology. Big Media is.

This is important because blaming M$ advances the Big Media
legislative agenda, providing the political undercurrent propelling
the raft of anti-technology and anti-internet laws being floated
through legislatures

Robert