Was reading an article ( http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7058002470.html ) which was an interview with Richard M. Stallman and came across this:
"Q4: Was there anything else relevant from your travels that you would like us to know about? A4: I am currently in France. Here some companies sell computers whose BIOS prevents installation of anything but Windows. Customers with a certain amount of expertise may be able to get another BIOS from branches of the same companies in other countries, but ordinary users won't know how to do that. Also, we are concerned that the new French law, like the DMCA but even nastier, might prohibit the replacement of the BIOS if Windows is deemed to be a form of Digital Restrictions Management." -- Neil Bower CLUG - http://clug.ca Registered Linux User # 323470 ( http://counter.li.org ) _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
