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Red Hat Linux paying to get past UEFI restrictions on Windows 8

June 4, 2012, 8:03 AM PDT

Takeaway: Red Hat Linux has decided it will pay to get around the UEFI. Jack Wallen thinks Microsoft has pushed other operating system developers and distributions into a tough situation that could have lasting effects.

The subject says it all. The soon to be released Windows 8 operating system is going to place all other operating system creators between a major rock and a hard place. The UEFI has been discussed ad nauseum in many forums, most of the discussions quickly diving into warring camps.

It’s good that Microsoft is driving a hardware-level security measure.
This is Microsoft going back to its monopolistic ways!

I even read one user on a Fedora mailing list dropping a Jean Luc Picard quote, by saying:

We’ve made too many compromises already, too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no farther!

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http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/red-hat-linux-paying-to-get-past-uefi-restrictions-on-windows-8/3666?tag=nl.e011

Then, I hope that the Open Hardware Movement, Grows to the Point... that UEFI Does Not Matter!

Don