Microsoft Bans Linux/Android Dual-Booting on Windows 8 ARM Devices

Re:Microsoft Bans Linux/Android Dual-Booting on Windows 8 AR... by king_jester on Monday June 04, 2012 @10:07AM (#4064038)

All of the devices you mentioned -- Android device, PS3, and router -- are all computers. They are general purpose machines that are programmed for a certain set of tasks. The kinds of devices you mention can all be reprogrammed and are actively reprogrammed by people, sometimes for a similar purpose that they already performed and sometimes for completely different purposes.

Just because I buy a device from Manufacturer X does not mean that said device is and only can be what the manufacturer intended. When I own a device, I have the freedom to tinker with that device, including making that device do something it was never intended to do. That is what I as a hacker love about computing machines: they are what I make them when I reprogram them.

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Re:Microsoft Bans Linux/Android Dual-Booting on Windows 8 AR... by tjoff on Monday June 04, 2012 @10:34AM (#4064154)

I agree on everything you say.

But that doesn't mean that the manufacturer have to play ball and make it easy for you.

Also, when we as consumers chose the iPhone we at the same said that we don't care the slightest about being able to do what we want with our devices, from a hacker perspective the future isn't looking bright and that is our fault since we buy crap.

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