Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

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A quiet announcement from the Fedora Linux community signals a titanic shift in the way that the computer market will work from now on, and a major threat to free/open operating systems. Microsoft and several PC vendors have teamed up to ensure that only operating systems bearing Microsoft's cryptographic signature will be able to boot on their hardware, meaning that unless Microsoft has blessed your favorite flavor of GNU/Linux or BSD, you won't be able to just install it on your machine, or boot to it from a USB stick or CD to try it out. There is a work-around for some systems involving a finicky and highly technical override process, but all that means is that installing proprietary software is easy and installing free/open software is hard.

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Napisano: 01 Jun 2012 16:28

Sta se nece "zgadija" sve setiti da napravi prinudu i dodje do para. Poci ce kao i sve "zastite" sto prodjose.

Dopuna: 01 Jun 2012 16:32

Ovde bi hardverska i softverska virtuelizacija mogle doci do izrazaja, u zaobilazenju "problema".



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