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Wouldn't pirates be able to make Windows copies that have a valid BootManager? Wouldn't OEM's be able to ship chips that allow original Windows to be booted as
by scrrr 15y ago
Wouldn't pirates be able to make Windows copies that have a valid BootManager? Wouldn't OEM's be able to ship chips that allow original Windows to be booted as well as Linux?
This is yet another futile attempt to prevent piracy. Besides, piracy is probably a good thing for Microsoft. The more Windows users the better in the long run.
- nkassis 15y agoThe issue on the linux side is the need to have a valid key to sign your bootloader and from what I understand the kernel too as it's part of the bootloader or something like that. Which means, no self compiled kernel and only from Linux vendors that were able to get a key in there. Obviously if anyone has a key it's no longer secure.
- SurfScore 15y agoexactly, I remember reading an article about someone at Microsoft saying that when Windows 3.1 came out, they actually liked piracy because at least people wanted to use the software. The same thing happened with Windows 7, Vista was such a catastrophic failure that they just wanted people to use Windows again. Now that they've had some success, they're going to go right back to their old ways.
- rbanffy 15y agoIn order to go after pirates, Microsoft must first create a market for Windows-only PCs. As soon as you have no option but Microsoft, they will cease to see piracy of Microsoft products as a choice preferable to using a competing product: competition becomes a non-issue because nobody else will be able to write OSs for the Windows-only computers.