The richard stallman has spoken. Would luv server be able to hold a mailing list to prepare? Ill do what research i can over holidays, including calls to ACCC (Ive already emailed them), but i cant do much in the way of action due to my age, unfortuantly.
Afaik we cant sue unless its actually happening, not based on future prepositions.
As far as...
> The FSF will do what it can.
Goes, its up to speculation.
Regards,
Luke Martinez
On 22/09/2011 12:37 PM, "Jason White" <
jason@jasonjgw.net> wrote:
> Daniel Pittman <
daniel@rimspace.net> wrote:
>
>> More so, even, if Microsoft are not responsible for the restriction –
>> if they specify that their key, or the OEM key, need to be present to
>> run Windows, but do not restrict other keys being included.
>>
>> ...and I suspect that the vendors, also, will not be on the hook here:
>> there are plenty of other hardware vendors, and their choice not to
>> support Linux will not be substantially different to their choice not
>> to support ARM operating systems: a business decision, allowing their
>> competition to "take" that market share.
>
> I'd be worried if most vendors were to take that option, however. In general,
> consumer systems are becoming increasingly locked-down (phones, tablets, now
> laptops and desktops too). Obviously, the freedom to run whatever kernel you
> want, including one compiled by you, is fundamental to Linux usage and
> development, hence it is vital to protect.
>
>>
>> Personally, I would be finding a tame SuperMicro vendor in the region,
>> who are extremely unlikely to stop selling Linux compatible systems,
>> what with their business market using it and all.
>
> We do need vendors who are committed to Linux, in addition to pursuing
> whatever can be gained through competition law.
>
> To play my part, I always choose hardware whenever I can for which the vendor
> claims Linux support (after doing the proper checking to ensure that it really
> is likely to work reliably). For example, my desktop machine is a workstation
> product certified to run Red Hat. I'm actually running Debian on it, but at
> least it is hardware that could be bought with Linux pre-installed.
>
> I think the people who are more likely to be affected by Microsoft's strategy,
> in the short term, are those running Windows who want to switch to Linux
> on their existing hardware, as well as Linux users who buy Windows machines
> for the purpose of installing Linux. Laptops would be particularly
> problematic.
>
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