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Re:Microsoft is killing Linux shops with Secure Boot by smogzer on Sunday May 05, 2013 @09:17AM (#5658263)
Politicy makers are dumb. They took ages to resolve an issue such as availability to choose the default browser on an operating system, yet, in their closed world of waiting for their retirement checks, they, and their fault of ideals in their confortable sofas do no address the :

simple issue of hardware and operating system separation.

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Re:Microsoft is killing Linux shops with Secure Boot by sultezdukes on Sunday May 05, 2013 @09:27AM (#5658285)
Because responsible citizens should be making those decisions, not "policy makers".
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Re:Microsoft is killing Linux shops with Secure Boot by dhimes on Sunday May 05, 2013 @10:59AM (#5658497)
Unfortunately, in market-driven cases like this the decisions are being made by the middle of the bell curve. And we know what that means:

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-09-06-po...

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