In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:52:23 +0100
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> WARNING!! There is windows in my.. BIOS!!!!
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> | From my laptop's Bios download page
> |
> | This BIOS is ONLY for use with Windows Vista. Please do not install this
> | BIOS for use with Windows XP, or other Windows versions.
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> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=2705017#post2705017
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> I wonder how much Microsoft is paying them to force people to use Vista.
>
Oh come now. If not everyone uses Vista how can Microsoft
claim it's the new standard? ;-)
(But we should probably thwack Phoenix a good one.
I'm frankly not sure how, though one can try to hit them
where it hurts -- by buying competing equipment instead.)
>
> Related:
>
> Mobile device vendor picks up AMD's PIC
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> | The PIC has been demonstrated running Linux, although versions of the
> | device that were sold along with Internet service packages in
> | developing nations reportedly blocked Linux at the BIOS level.
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> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4716172415.html
Ick. Microsoft-specific protocols enforced by ISPs
and mobile phone companies. Not a pretty picture.
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