Re: [Sheflug] FSF winduhs 8

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 02 March 2012 14:47:54 Andrew Smith wrote: 
> It's different this time round though surely? Google and Apple are
> both outselling Microsoft on arm and have significant marketing
> power of their own. Sure neither company is using GNU/Linux but a
> more open market will mean manufacturers will be bolder in their
> resistance to Microsoft's advances.

Yes.  You could argue in that way.  Probably about right.  It's just 
the traditional Microsoft way of doing things that you can't get away 
from.  Don't know what it is with them.  They just insist on doing 
daft things in a certain way.
 
> As for the raspberry pi, it'll only be locked down if it was sold
> with Windows OEM, you can't even install windows on arm if it
> isn't OEM! Since they don't even sell the pi with storage it
> doesn't even come into Microsoft's agenda which seems awfully
> short sighted, for the last decade they have used education to
> assimilate more drones ;)

Yeh... Whitehall=Microsoft=Educational establishment.  Be nice to see 
something change.

-- 
Richard

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