From personal experience of getting caught out by buying a machine that
turned out to have an unadvertised WinModem things are even uglier than
that.
Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry van Eyken" <vaneyken@sympatico.ca>
To: <unrev-II@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 4:34 PM
Subject: [unrev-II] "He who controls the bootloader"
> This refers to an exceedingly important piece by Scot Hacker. It shows
where the U.S. Department of
> Justice failed in its case against Microsoft by not addressing the issue
of abusing its bootloader
> monopoly. They wanted a stronmg case centered on the browser wars and not
distract from that by the
> more important issue of Microsoft's control over the hardware market.
>
> Scot Hacker, an afficionado of the Be operating system and author of the
"BeOS Bible," had a
> conversation with the CEO of Be Inc., which just sold out for a song to
Palm. Important matters came
> to light. Here is a glimpse:
>
> "You and I can't read the license because Microsoft classifies it as a
'trade secret.' The license
> specifies that any machine which includes a Microsoft operating system
must not also offer a
> nonMicrosoft operating system as a boot option. In other words, a computer
that offers to boot into
> Windows upon startup cannot also offer to boot into BeOS or Linux. The
hardware vendor does not get
> to choose which OSes to install on the machines they sell - Microsoft
does."
>
> For the full "must read":
>
> http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1115/byt20010824s0001/0827_hacker.html
>
> Henry
>
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