Fedora 18 and UEFI

[Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I]

On 07/07/2012 08:55 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Heinz Diehl <htd at fritha.org> wrote:
>> We're not. Micr*soft dominates, and they can virtually do anything
>> they like.
> Not if the US DOJ and the Federal Trade Comission gets involved.
>
> Remember the US-DOJ trial with judge Thomas Penfield Jackson found
> MSFT GUILTY. The fact that later a new administration came in and
> allowed them to turn the breakup into a set of ´remedies´ which
> included opening up MSFT protocols to third parties (which for
> instance, allowed Samba NTLM authentication to interoperate with
> MSFT´s) is besides the point... Microsoft is a convicted monopolist,
> and as such there´s a thin line they must walk on...
>
> I´m not a lawyer but I guess some antitrust lawyer could conclude that
> this is an abuse of dominant position.
>
> See for instance the recent MSFT-Nokia deal, now an antitrust lawyer says:
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-balto/nokia-microsoft_b_1582227.html
>
> "The European Commission will hopefully open an investigation and the
> U.S. regulators will follow suit."
>
> I hope the EFF, the CDT or other advocacy groups get involved to get
> the FTC briefed about the implications of this.
>
> Just my $0.02
> FC
I agree with you Fernando! I believe if more people would look into this 
matter seriously and see through all the smoke & mirrors....then maybe 
there would be someone....somewhere trying to stop it!


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