FSF Campaign against Microsoft's Plan to Enforce "Secure Boot"

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 04:28:01PM -0600, Steve G. wrote:
> I thought I got the joke, but was not sure if it was Monty Python, so thanks
> for clarifying.
> 
> Now a technical question - wouldn't we still be able to run Linux as a
> virtual machine under windows? 

Maybe. But this is a very grave limitation, and I would really hate to
have it. It makes the guest OS inferior, avoids direct access to the
hardware for the most part. I wouldn't buy such a hardware.

Oh, and given MS's past history with licensing, I would expect funny
games in the future if this were to be the norm (e.g. machines with the
vmx bit enabled would start to cost more).

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