mjg59 | Time to make calls to your congressional representative. (Reply)

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It's interesting that RedHat is not going to the government claiming anti-trust. I wonder if their plan is to just pay Microsoft some hush money to allow another OS install option? I also don't see how secure boot will make things any safer in the Windows world or Unix Like OS world.

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Power management, mobile and firmware developer on Linux. Security developer at Nebula. Ex-biologist. @mjg59 on Twitter. Content here should not be interpreted as the opinion of my employer.

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