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+ <B>Wolfgang Bornath</B>
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+ <I>Sun Jun 3 08:47:16 CEST 2012</I>
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+<PRE>2012/6/3 Doug Laidlaw &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">laidlaws at hotkey.net.au</A>&gt;:
+&gt;<i> On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 16:13:01 +1000
+</I>&gt;<i> Doug Laidlaw &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">laidlaws at hotkey.net.au</A>&gt; wrote:
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 18:03:46 +1200
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> John &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">john at neodoc.biz</A>&gt; wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &gt; I'm not sure if others have seen this:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &gt;
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &gt; &lt;<A HREF="http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/statement">http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/statement</A>&gt;
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &gt;
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &gt; John
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &gt;
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> The statement says that all new computers must have the Windows-only
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> lock. &#160;What about upgrades? &#160;If I buy a computer from a Linux dealer
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> and retrofit Windows 8, where do I stand?
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I am staying with XP. The dealers still prefer XP over Win7, when
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> they have a choice. &#160;When I can no longer use that, Windows goes out
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> the window.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Doug,
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Registered Linux user.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> It will be like Windows' &quot;own goal&quot; over business users: &quot;We have them
+</I>&gt;<i> cornered; now we can charge what we like.&quot; &#160;The users voted with their
+</I>&gt;<i> feet. &#160;They are still doing it, hence the popularity of the Mac. &#160;When
+</I>&gt;<i> will Microsoft learn that excellence sells more than coercion?
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I know that my hardware will support Windows 7; it probably won't
+</I>&gt;<i> support Windows 8. &#160;Having Win 7 available may be good insurance.
+</I>
+I installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview on the same machine I already
+run Mageia and other Linux distributions, no problems. So best guess
+is they did not implement the restriction in the preview. Now what
+will happen if you pay for a full version and it will not work? Not
+that it bothers me whether I am able to run Windows... :)
+
+--
+wobo
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