Well, yes. You're right. Apparently only EU commission can help and
let me tell you that: EU is really good with those kind of
regulations. It usually cares for customer's privacy and fights
monopoly of particular companies. Let's hope it would make next move.

Anyway, there are [still] some custom PC sets that remains open and
non-restrictive. Let's count on that so it will remain active on the
market.

W dniu 24.09.2011 18:57, Paolo Aglialoro pisze:
> Unfortunately, just a tiny percentage of sold X86 boxes is no-OS,
> and also dell has stopped selling linux PCs. The last "no-OS" one I
> bought was an HP laptop (HP 360) with suse 11 onboard. Drops within
> an ocean. Unless EU Commission helps, it'll be a hell of a
> scenery....
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Marc Smith <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> This has been already explained in multiple articles, really. It
>> looks like it's OEMs stuff. They decide whether they give the end
>> user an option to disable secure boot or not. It's probobly the
>> best to buy only "No OS" computers anyway. You can also support
>> various open BIOS initiatives.
>> 
>> Dnia sob, 24 wrz 2011, 15:36:21 Amit Kulkarni pisze:
>>> http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/5850.html
>>> 
>>> in the future how will we have access to OpenBSD if Microsoft
>>> get away with it? right now most of us buy Windows enabled PCs
>>> and either dual boot or wipe it out...
>>> 
>>> thanks

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