Mac OSX involves an anti-feature to keep it form running on hardware that it supports perfectly. Saying windows 8 OEM version will only run on top of a secure boot is similar.
However this is a question of an anti-feature, If there is no technical reason why a motherboard can't run Linux, then there are few legitimate reasons why it shouldn't'. It takes very little dev time to offer a switch to disable the feature and makes the product much more useful to a significant amount of people. (Not just Linux but windows XP or 7 in enterprise environments)
People should be able to manage thier keys, even if it just a menu to do allow or disallow the keys you want and to add arbitrary keys or keyservers. If the OEM doesn't allow this then I'm looking for a different OEM, and I'll tell everyone I know that the particular OEM in question is to be avoided and detested.
Re: Weak arguments
However this is a question of an anti-feature, If there is no technical reason why a motherboard can't run Linux, then there are few legitimate reasons why it shouldn't'. It takes very little dev time to offer a switch to disable the feature and makes the product much more useful to a significant amount of people. (Not just Linux but windows XP or 7 in enterprise environments)
People should be able to manage thier keys, even if it just a menu to do allow or disallow the keys you want and to add arbitrary keys or keyservers. If the OEM doesn't allow this then I'm looking for a different OEM, and I'll tell everyone I know that the particular OEM in question is to be avoided and detested.