[Gllug] OT: Microsoft sandbox?

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 29 Aug, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> 

> 
> This is the start of the M$ campaign to promote "Palladium" - a version of 
> Windoze that will demand the installation of a M$-specific BIOS.  The 
> traditional "IBM PC clone" that we're all using now will be effectively 
> redundant in the brave new M$ world.  The hardware manufacturers were rubbing 
> their hands with glee at the thought of all the new kit that they could sell 
> until they realised all the implications of the dreaded M$ BIOS.....
> 
> Chris 
> 
> 
   I wonder what proportion of PC hardware is made by US-owned-and-run
companies, after all many of the countries that actually manufacture the
goods run Linux themselves, so may well have vested interests.

-- 
Chris Bell


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