[Arm-netbook] Microsoft confirms UEFI fears, locks down ARM devices

[Vladimir Pantelic]

On 01/15/2012 01:53 PM, lkcl luke wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Vladimir Pantelic<vladoman at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> I don't have the impression that the work to contact copyright
>> holders is what is preventing the kernel going V3. My impression
>> is that it would be very unwelcome in most of the Linux using
>> industry.
>
>   hm. what's the general consensus on why that is, do you think?  is it
> because it (ironically) stops tivoisation?

Yes, it takes away full control over the devices out of the hand
of the manufacturers. E.g. Google did not chose to forego GPL code in
android userspace because they wanted too, but because they felt that
it would be hard to force it on manufacturers.