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| Microsoft Taking Aggressive Steps Against Linux On ARM
|   from the justice-department-be-damned dept.
|   posted by timothy on Saturday January 14, @08:05 (DRM)
|   with 565 comments
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https://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/01/14/0236244/microsoft-taking-aggressi=
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New submitter Microlith writes "Microsoft has updated their WHQL
certification requirements for Windows 8, and [0]placed specific
restrictions on ARM platforms that will make it impossible to install
non-Microsoft operating systems on ARM devices, and make it impossible to
turn off or customize such security. Choice quotes from the certification
include from page 116, section 20: 'On an ARM system, it is forbidden to
enable Custom Mode. Only Standard Mode may be enabled' =E2=80=94 which prev=
ents
users from customizing their security, and in section 21: 'Disabling
Secure MUST NOT be possible on ARM systems' to prevent you from booting
any other OSes."

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http://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2012/jan/12/microsoft-confirms-UEFI-fea=
rs-locks-down-ARM/

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