Well, yes. You're right. Apparently only EU commission can help and let me tell you that: EU is really good with those kind of regulations. It usually cares for customer's privacy and fights monopoly of particular companies. Let's hope it would make next move.
Anyway, there are [still] some custom PC sets that remains open and non-restrictive. Let's count on that so it will remain active on the market. W dniu 24.09.2011 18:57, Paolo Aglialoro pisze: > Unfortunately, just a tiny percentage of sold X86 boxes is no-OS, > and also dell has stopped selling linux PCs. The last "no-OS" one I > bought was an HP laptop (HP 360) with suse 11 onboard. Drops within > an ocean. Unless EU Commission helps, it'll be a hell of a > scenery.... > > > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Marc Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> This has been already explained in multiple articles, really. It >> looks like it's OEMs stuff. They decide whether they give the end >> user an option to disable secure boot or not. It's probobly the >> best to buy only "No OS" computers anyway. You can also support >> various open BIOS initiatives. >> >> Dnia sob, 24 wrz 2011, 15:36:21 Amit Kulkarni pisze: >>> http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/5850.html >>> >>> in the future how will we have access to OpenBSD if Microsoft >>> get away with it? right now most of us buy Windows enabled PCs >>> and either dual boot or wipe it out... >>> >>> thanks
