Re: Will this ruling have implications for secure booting?

Allan Duncan <amd2345@fastmail.com.au> wrote:

I wonder if that might extend to the boot process as well.

This depends on the intricacies of E.U. competition law, of which I know nothing. I expect, however, that providing an option in the BIOS to deactivate the checking of signatures during boot would suffice to satisfy any requirement. I would also be interested in the implications for "locked-down" mobile devices: what position in the market would a mobile operating system vendor have to achieve before preventing purchasors from installing alternative operating systems on the hardware becomes anti-competitive? I don't know what the criteria are or whether any mobile device or software vendor could find itself in violation.