<p>Alright, i'll have to agree with you there. But, I think we can ignore the media. We all know what's going to get more hits...</p>
<p>'Linux Australia mailing list has a discussion on the impact of Microsoft's windows 8 OEM scheme" or "Linux Aus threatens Microsoft with ACCC"? </p>
<p>Luke Hopewell: Scratch my last email. ;)<br></p>
<p>Luke Martinez,<br>
<a href="mailto:me@luke.asia">me@luke.asia</a>.<br>
-- android 2.3.4 custom build -sorry for the spelling.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 6, 2011 12:10 AM, "Bianca Gibson" <<a href="mailto:ringwraithenator@gmail.com">ringwraithenator@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> Please don't talk about *when*, there is already enough misinformation<br>
> floating around about this. ZDnet taking the automatically generated<br>> response as a sign there are definitely grounds to go after MS really didn't<br>> help, especially since a lot of people then think a more exaggerated version<br>
> of what they read. Today I had someone tell me we were already going after<br>> MS in court.<br>> <br>> To try and prevent the misinformation getting worse, I'd really appreciate<br>> you saying 'if'. I know you didn't mean anything bad by it, but take into<br>
> account that media will be reading this and not necessarily read it<br>> thoroughly before reporting, so we need to watch out. I had unclear wording<br>> just before as well.<br>> <br>> <br>> On 5 October 2011 23:26, Luke Martinez <<a href="mailto:me@luke.asia">me@luke.asia</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>>> Ah, well that's the evil in it all. We can't really make them assume<br>>> responsibility for the boot locking. Because they don't require them to<br>>> provide the ability to turn it off. As in, in court they could just say, "<br>
>> we didn't force them, speak to the oems ."<br>>><br>>> Hopefully that argument wont stand up when we fight them in court.*<br>>><br>>> Luke Martinez,<br>>> <a href="mailto:Me@luke.asia">Me@luke.asia</a><br>
>><br>>> *unfortunantly its looking less of an if, more of a When.<br>>><br>>> -- android 2.3.4 custom build - sorry for the spelling.<br>>> On Oct 5, 2011 10:55 PM, "Bianca Gibson" <<a href="mailto:ringwraithenator@gmail.com">ringwraithenator@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>>> > Sorry, I didn't write clearly.<br>>> > I meant that it doesn't require OEMs to allow the UEFI to be disabled or<br>>> for<br>>> > users to add their own keys, as said in the article you (Luke) linked.<br>
>> ><br>>> > Thanks, Bianca.<br>>><br></div>