On Jun 19, 2012, at 7:59 AM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > > And, as if on cue, Microsoft just announced their own ARM tablet. Do you feel > that they should leave it open to installing alternative OS?
Apple does not. Although I don't think they're using UEFI on their hardware, the described boot process sounds similar to Secure Boot. > Would they subsidize its hardware cost like they apparently do with Xboxes, > and would your answer change depending on whether they do? Doesn't matter. And there's no reason for them to subsidize the hardware, just because of a lockout. There's reason for them to subsidize in order to catch up with iOS and Android, however. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
