Two steps forward, one sidestep and an enthusiastic lunge backwards in the name of security. They've been trying to do this with Windows-proper for the last 5

Two steps forward, one sidestep and an enthusiastic lunge backwards in the name of security. They've been trying to do this with Windows-proper for the last 5 years, banking on the apathy of manufacturers to block other operating systems from running by not allowing other secure keys (or disabling the disabling of secure boot). This is just the extension of that, except they control the hardware too. Given open Linux distributions have a habit of making devices Just Work™ indefinitely —well that's what my 2008 desktop CPU, 2010 laptop tell me— I'm not surprised they want to make sure their hardware rots so people have to upgrade to a newer, stronger-walled garden.