Linux Has Not Won, Microsoft is as Dangerous as Ever, Fie on Secure Boot | Linux Today

Linux Has Not Won, Microsoft is as Dangerous as Ever, Fie on Secure Boot

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Carla Schroder
Dec 5, 2012

I think UEFI Secure Boot is a shuck and a bald-faced Microsoft anti-competitive tool. I’ll get to my reasons in a moment, because my most important point comes first: Every purchase of a Windows license is an attack on Linux. Linux has not won, and Microsoft is as dangerous as ever.

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Carla Schroder

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