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

[lkcl luke]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Vladimir Pantelic <vladoman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

 that's.... not a good reason.  and google is a minority copyright holder.

 i was thinking more along the lines of the major copyright holders.

 l.