It may not matter much when there is just 1 motherboard manufacturer doing this.
But when your Video Card Maker / Your Motherboard Maker / and your Sound Card Maker all have different distributions, each with special features that you would REALLY want in one super distribution. But oh, you can't do that, they have copyrighted their proprietary alterations to the OS. You will see that this is going to cause a few headaches in the future.
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I see this as starting an alarming trend.
It may not matter much when there is just 1 motherboard manufacturer doing this.
But when your Video Card Maker / Your Motherboard Maker / and your Sound Card Maker all have different distributions, each with special features that you would REALLY want in one super distribution. But oh, you can't do that, they have copyrighted their proprietary alterations to the OS. You will see that this is going to cause a few headaches in the future.
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