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On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 06:37:41PM -0500, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: |
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> Just picking a random response to reply to. I'm not speaking |
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> officially, however, I'm pretty sure we at Genesi aren't going to pay |
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> Microsoft in order to boot our own boards. |
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If you don't want your boards to be Windows 8 certified, then you are |
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fine. Otherwise, you have to follow their guidelines, which I don't |
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think requires paying them any money if you want to run Windows 8. |
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Also, as these are "your own boards", you control the BIOS, so you don't |
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even have to implement UEFI, or, if you do, you can control what keys |
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are installed in the BIOS by default. |
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So I don't understand the issue here, please explain. |
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greg k-h |
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