Actually I'm way more optimist about OEM motherboard manufacturers rather than PC companies. The weak spot will in fact be laptops and other portable equipment, as these are all proprietary design.
Considering that laptop sales have overdone standard "fixed" PCs ones since years, the ecosystem, unless some heavyweight authority will strike hard, could be severely affected.... Plus: is this crap going to fit the TPM chip onboard? Or just something that can be got around by flashing bios/firmware? And how many firmwares will there be? It's not realistic to think that any single one of them can be hacked... plus with the danger of bricking the box any time or making it behave dizzy.... On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Marc Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
