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Re:Support the FSF: Help us stop Restricted Boot by mtgx on Saturday December 29, 2012 @11:36AM (#4982528)
Why make the difference between the two? What's so special about tablets that they deserve restricted boot, but PC's do not? They're just all computers. What's worse is that in the future these computers will be a lot more popular than PC's ever were. That means more people will be restricted by default.

Most tablets and phones just happen to come with a different chip architecture, but there is nothing inherent to them that demands they should be restricted compared to the x86 alternatives.

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Re:Support the FSF: Help us stop Restricted Boot by tzs on Saturday December 29, 2012 @12:25PM (#4982665)
One major difference between phones and desktops is that phones are often subsidized.
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Re:Support the FSF: Help us stop Restricted Boot by josteink on Saturday December 29, 2012 @12:32PM (#4982687)
So are computers with their "free" antivirus included. But let's not care about that.

Why should that make a difference?

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Re:Support the FSF: Help us stop Restricted Boot by greenyoda on Saturday December 29, 2012 @10:35PM (#4984482)
The subsidy is paid back by the customer being locked into a service contract for some number of years. It shouldn't affect the customers' freedom to run their own software on the phone.
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Re:Support the FSF: Help us stop Restricted Boot by owendbybest on Saturday December 29, 2012 @02:43PM (#4983169)
This applies mostly to US phone sales.
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