Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

[Dave Stevens]

Quoting JD <jd1008 at gmail.com>:

> On 06/04/2012 03:27 AM, Zoltan Hoppar wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think is the same as the trusted computing bullshit, pretense to
>> gain money and keep away non-ms stuff.
>> Question why now? Why they want that so badly?
>>
>> Z
>>
> My feeling is that the current economic gloom and doom is a fertile
> ground in which megalithic (and monopolistic) corporations seed
> their ideas for increasing their profits. The current administration
> would want to lay claim to being the instrument of improving the
> business atmosphere - and as evidence - BigRich corp would post
> huge gains in profits by charging all of us money for permitting us
> to run our computers, which we own, and the software, which we
> purchased.
> It's all about control control control - which translates into
> money money money which buys power and influence.

don't see anything to argue with there...

D

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