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Re:Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop by jewbacca on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @05:19AM (#12546598)
Seriously. If this does turn out to be intentional on Microsoft's part, then there goes every last shred of trust and goodwill they've spent the last 10 years rebuilding.

(and, honestly, were finally succeeding at, to the point where I'm very close to willing to give them the benefit of the doubt here: how the hell could the benefits of such a thing come anywhere near to outweighing the amount of damage it would do?)

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Re:Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop by lemagedurage on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @06:42AM (#12546938)
10 years?

I remember the lawsuit against TomTom in 2009, because they used the FAT32 filesystem through open source drivers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._TomTom_Inc.

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Re:Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop by Piskvorrr on Thursday September 22, 2016 @03:58AM (#12555266)
Meh. For me, the last drop was "You WANT the X, admit it! (Not like you have a choice, we force-upgraded your computer anyway, no matter what you chose)" This is just Business As Usual.
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