This article is really great, thanks a lot! Also, I already support that "repair" culture, not only for ecology or better savings, the need for GHz-booze is just marketing, my old P3 700MHz openbsd laptop still does quite a lot.
It just comes to my mind what a guy I knew told me about the R&D dept of a very famous home devices brand: "they design products which, within 5 years, will suffer from a hardware failure which won't be economically savvy to repair, compared to buying a new device: this is the only way to keep selling in an overloaded market..." On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Tomas Bodzar <tomas.bod...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Paolo Aglialoro <paol...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Actually I'm way more optimist about OEM motherboard manufacturers rather > > than PC companies. > > The weak spot will in fact be laptops and other portable equipment, as > these > > are all proprietary design. > > There's new article related to that > http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=1863 > > > > > Considering that laptop sales have overdone standard "fixed" PCs ones > since > > years, the ecosystem, unless some heavyweight authority will strike hard, > > could be severely affected.... > > > > Plus: is this crap going to fit the TPM chip onboard? Or just something > that > > can be got around by flashing bios/firmware? And how many firmwares will > > there be? It's not realistic to think that any single one of them can be > > hacked... plus with the danger of bricking the box any time or making it > > behave dizzy.... > > > > > > > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Marc Smith <marc_sm...@gmx.com> wrote: > > > >> Well, yes. You're right. Apparently only EU commission can help and > >> let me tell you that: EU is really good with those kind of > >> regulations. It usually cares for customer's privacy and fights > >> monopoly of particular companies. Let's hope it would make next move. > >> > >> Anyway, there are [still] some custom PC sets that remains open and > >> non-restrictive. Let's count on that so it will remain active on the > >> market. > >> > >> W dniu 24.09.2011 18:57, Paolo Aglialoro pisze: > >> > Unfortunately, just a tiny percentage of sold X86 boxes is no-OS, > >> > and also dell has stopped selling linux PCs. The last "no-OS" one I > >> > bought was an HP laptop (HP 360) with suse 11 onboard. Drops within > >> > an ocean. Unless EU Commission helps, it'll be a hell of a > >> > scenery.... > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Marc Smith <marc_sm...@gmx.com> > >> > wrote: > >> > > >> >> This has been already explained in multiple articles, really. It > >> >> looks like it's OEMs stuff. They decide whether they give the end > >> >> user an option to disable secure boot or not. It's probobly the > >> >> best to buy only "No OS" computers anyway. You can also support > >> >> various open BIOS initiatives. > >> >> > >> >> Dnia sob, 24 wrz 2011, 15:36:21 Amit Kulkarni pisze: > >> >>> http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/5850.html > >> >>> > >> >>> in the future how will we have access to OpenBSD if Microsoft > >> >>> get away with it? right now most of us buy Windows enabled PCs > >> >>> and either dual boot or wipe it out... > >> >>> > >> >>> thanks
