Re:Ubuntu's Plans To Implement UEFI SecureBoot: No GRUB2
by adestefan on Friday June 22, 2012 @11:58AM
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Locked down hardware started long before smartphones and Apple were even thought of.
Re:Ubuntu's Plans To Implement UEFI SecureBoot: No GRUB2
by elehack on Friday June 22, 2012 @01:50PM
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Yes, but Apple was the first to make lockdown an acceptable, or even desirable, thing for general-purpose consumer computing devices on a large scale. The idea was around, and implemented in a number of places (especially on phones), but Apple was the first to pull the marketing trick of getting the world to accept or welcome it in a domain thought of as computing rather than peripheral or special-purpose devices.
To be fair, these standards aren't controlled by Microsoft, but they've thrown their weight at the manufacturers to make sure the standards are implemented in a way which grossly favours them as the PC OS incumbent.
But they are using the recent success of Apple & co in consumer circles to diminish the appearance of their monopoly and make it look as if choices abound to the consumer.