On Thursday 01 March 2012 16:20:15 Geoffrey Cowling wrote: > Will Microsoft be able to lock this down?
In some ways this is a good question. As far I understand it M$ attempts to lock down the Arm platform in Europe will fail due to EU law. Not allowed to do what they want to do. Might be that under U.S. law they can do something ? Not sure about the latter. Whatever else happens they will certainly use their marketing power to drive out GNU/Linux from the ARM CPU in the way that they did from the Asus EeePC. Only Linux fans will know that Linux exists. In the U.K. the Pi is aimed at the educational market. Which is owned by Microsoft under direction from Whitehall. Say n'more ?... <cough> Winduhs advert... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT3_UCm1A5I Best winduhs advert out there ;) -- Richard www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
