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Re:Ubuntu's Plans To Implement UEFI SecureBoot: No GRUB2 by maxerickson on Friday June 22, 2012 @01:35PM (#4147765)
The context of my comment was someone labeling the practice anti-competitive. That's where harm comes into the picture.

I'm sure that the stuff will continue to get bad press, the idea of centrally controlled hardware is offensive to a large chunk of the people that bother to think about it.

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Re:Ubuntu's Plans To Implement UEFI SecureBoot: No GRUB2 by beagle3 on Friday June 22, 2012 @03:37PM (#4148365)
Anti-competitive includes future harm. The way bundling IE was found anticompetitive by US and EU courts. Specifically, it is illegal to leverage monopoly in one market to gain entry to others - because history has shown that this is always abused and eventually harms society.
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