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Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad by task_queue on Friday April 17, 2015 @12:04PM (#9395187)
I believe this is similar to Microsoft's driver model, where at the end of the day, they decide what's signed or not and thus what can hook into the kernel.

Stallman was prescient.

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Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad by jamiesonbecker on Friday April 17, 2015 @05:15PM (#9397236)
UEFI's secure boot enables Microsoft to force out other operating systems in hardware:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_In...

(+1 for the RMS reference)

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