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To: WhiskeyX
No, to be fair it is the fault of Microsoft and every company who deferred to Microsoft when they pushed the Secure Boot feature onto users in the form they used, which was long ago forecasted to give Microsoft the ability to make competitive operating systems too problematic and burdensome to implement. How many users realize Microsoft Windows 10 embraced Linux features that have been forecast as part of a Microsoft strategy to embrace, extend, and then drop Linux in Microsoft products as part of its anti-competitive grand strategy?

How many do you think know UEFI is an industry standard, documented and agreed to by the industry at large to address security issues like rootkits, and not just some contrivance Microsoft came up with to screw with their users?

24 posted on 05/07/2016 5:39:21 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic

“How many do you think know UEFI is an industry standard, documented and agreed to by the industry at large to address security issues like rootkits, and not just some contrivance Microsoft came up with to screw with their users?”

Get off it with the disinformation. Microsoft and Apple had overwhelming influence in the development of the Secure Boot functions in the UEFI standards:

UEFI By Forrest Stroud

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/uefi.html

Linus Torvalds: I will not change Linux to “deep-throat Microsoft” “This is not a d**k-sucking contest,” says Linux’s benevolent overlord.
by Jon Brodkin - Feb 26, 2013 10:09am PST

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/02/linus-torvalds-i-will-not-change-linux-to-deep-throat-microsoft/


29 posted on 05/07/2016 5:56:00 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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