<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeff@ocjtech.us">jeff@ocjtech.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div id=":1tl">Yes, Microsoft is being very intelligent here. By requiring that<br>
Windows 8 be bootable, but not requiring a toggle to turn secure boot<br>
off they will effectively freeze out everyone else. OEMs are cheap<br>
and they won't go to a lot of trouble to please the open source crowd.<br>
Microsoft comes off sounding like the good guy here but in reality<br>
they know that OEMs will try and get away with the minimum necessary<br>
changes to keep running Windows, thereby shutting out non-Windows<br>
operating system.<br></div></blockquote></div><br>I agree with every point you mentioned, and can even one-up by saying that most Unix systems generate init files on the actual machine, so it would be very hard to sign.<div>
<br></div><div>The one thing we have going for us is that the Asian markets are huge and very cost sensitive. In India and China machines have to ship with a graphical OS and many don't ship with Windows. Therefore companies targeting these markets will likely have a toggle in the bios, probably with it off by default.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My biggest concern is the low-cost consumer systems sold in 1st world countries. I've noticed that the machines at Best Buy typically have fewer BIOS options. I could easily see that one being left out.<br clear="all">
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