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I agree. It looks like all the Distro's will have to jump on the bandwagon so to speak in order to be used by the new Windows 8 boxes. Then in this case, why a

by Albuca 14y ago

I agree. It looks like all the Distro's will have to jump on the bandwagon so to speak in order to be used by the new Windows 8 boxes. Then in this case, why are all the distro's having to shell out to get a licence key from Microsoft? I know of a lot of small distro's that dont produce any income, and pay for their webspace out of their own pocket. Why are we going to force them to purchase a key to allow their distro to run on a Windows 8 box?

AndrewDucker 14y ago
If they don't want Secure Boot then the user can turn it off. If they do want secure boot then it needs to be signed by _someone_, and none of the Linux distributors have been willing to step forward and be that someone.
- Ralith 14y ago
  > If they don't want Secure Boot then the user can turn it off. Unless you're on ARM, in which case you're screwed.