[ShadowAce]

[hoosierham]

Microsoft would like nothing better than to lock out all other software from operating on PCs .Microsoft bullying marketing tactics put an end to PC makers’ customized intro screens and apps and killed off the competing PC-GEOS.

Not that Apple’s strangle hold on hardware and software approval is any better.

A pox on companies that try to lock the customer into only those companies goods by coercion not value and performance.

[rawhide]

Will Windows 8 PCs Shut the Door on Linux?

It seems safe to say that a sizable proportion of Linux PC users in the world today installed the free and open source operating system on hardware that originally came loaded with Windows. After all, while there are preloaded systems available, it often ends up being cheaper to buy a Windows PC and load Linux yourself.

Once Windows 8 starts shipping on PCs, however, that may no longer be possible. It turns out that a new feature included in the operating system in the name of security may also effectively make it impossible to load Linux on officially Windows 8-certified hardware.

“It’s probably not worth panicking yet,” wrote Red Hat developer Matthew Garrett in a Tuesday blog post on the topic. “But it is worth being concerned.”

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/240347/will_windows_8_pcs_shut_the_door_on_linux.html

[martin_fierro]

This statement from this article that you posted earlier this month really summed it up for me:

In this case, the FSF is spot on the mark. If Microsoft wants to follow Apple’s lead and build their own computers designed to run only Windows, they are free to do so. But as long as they are acting merely as a software vendor, they should not be allowed to change established standards in a way that requires developers of other operating systems to go through Redmond in order for their software to be installable.