Microsoft Responds To Linux Concerns Over Windows 8 and UEFI Secure Boot

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 23, 2011 @12:50AM from the putting-out-fires dept.

CSHARP123 writes "A few days ago, Red Hat employee Matthew Garrett speculated that OEM machines shipping with copies of Windows 8 may lock out support for Linux installations. Garrett highlighted Microsoft's new Secure Build OEM requirements for Windows 8 systems. Microsoft chose to directly respond to confusion surrounding Windows 8's use of the UEFI Secure Boot feature on Thursday. Tony Mangefeste of Microsoft's Ecosystem team said, 'Microsoft supports OEMs having the flexibility to decide who manages security certificates and how to allow customers to import and manage those certificates, and manage secured boot. We believe it is important to support this flexibility to the OEMs and to allow our customers to decide how they want to manage their systems.'"

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Re:Translation by MrHanky · 2011-09-23 01:00 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Is that so? Practically all OEMs force a Windows license on you, and have done so since forever (1995), as that's more profitable for them. None of them cares whether you actually use it, and I see no reason why they should start now.
I say you're a shit translator.