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Re: [News] ASUS Motherboards Bypass Windows, Give Huge Boost to GNU/Linux

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____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Monday 21 July 2008 18:14 : \____

> Odd way of doing things; one could simply schlep GRUB
> on there and have done with it, in an ideal world.
> (LILO would also work.)  Then again, knowing Microsoft's
> habit of rewriting the boot record, maybe ASUS decided
> the VmWare approach was more likely to continue to work.

Yes, Microsoft tried to stop this with a EULA. Phoenix complaint and it became
an antitrust issue, so Microsoft had to change the EULA to something less...
well, less anti-Linux.

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