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Greg KH wrote: |
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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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I'm glad you said that. If I was going to have to pay M$ to run Linux, |
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I was thinking of shooting them with laser eyes or something. I have no |
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plans to ever support M$ in any shape, form or fashion. Period. |
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Thing is, they will likely try to make it so you can't disable it |
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eventually. Some politician will try to make it a law if nothing else. |
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After all, politicians are clueless anyway. Reminds me of chickens and |
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it raining. :/ |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! |
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Miss the compile output? Hint: |
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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" |