[Nottingham] Well, this makes for depressing reading (UEFI)

[Martin]

On 21/11/12 10:32, Jason Irwin wrote:
> http://blog.hansenpartnership.com/adventures-in-microsoft-uefi-signing/
> 
> It's almost it never occurred to them that there is a life beyond Windows.
> Or (donning tin-foil hat) it is a deliberate effort to block anything
> non-Windows.
> But I doubt that.  Couldn't be that.

Unfortunately, that follows on from this other unsavoury example:


More in the series of bizarre UEFI bugs
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/20187.html


Unbelievable coding sloppiness or malign/mischievous intent?...


This all reminds me of the "Naughty Intel" debacle of years ago for
which I think we are all still shadowed under in various ways... How
much crippled old code and old Intel cripple compilers are still in use
from that period?...


Cheers,
Martin



Intel's compiler: is crippling the competition acceptable?
http://www.swallowtail.org/naughty-intel.shtml

Do Intel compilers still cripple AMD processors?
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-824046.html



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