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

[Nadav Har'El]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011, Amit Aronovitch wrote about "Re: FSF Campaign against Microsoft's Plan to Enforce "Secure Boot"":
> People care. Corporations seek profit for investors. Some people would argue
> that this is more a virtue than a flaw.

Yes, all corporations seek profit, but like the Perl moto says, "there is more
than one way to do it". One company can decide that it can make more money by
selling stuff that Israelis want (this is the way that Microsoft went, almost
from the start), another company can decide that it can't be bothered with this
small market (this is the way Apple went for many years, and many of its
services still are unavailable in Israel), and a third company can decide to
boycott Israel completely, because selling in Israel will actually cause it
to lose money (e.g., because of the Arab Boycott).

So while companies that chose the first path - like Microsoft - aren't saints,
they should at least be commended for chosing this path, and not one of the
other two.

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