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On Monday 26 Sep 2011 20:29:14 Jonas de Buhr wrote: |
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> >> between a fully-signed system (Windows 9 / OS XI or so) or a cracked |
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> >> boot, with little in the way of switching between the two, at least |
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> >> initially |
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> >> I know which one I'd pick if it came down to it :) |
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> >And you really need not worry about it, some geek (Torvalds?) will |
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> >surely find out a way. |
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> yes, there will most likely be a technical way to circumvent it. the |
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> problem is that involved companies might try (and likely succeed) to |
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> make that illegal. |
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> the reasoning will be this: it is assumed that you only make that |
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> modification to run pirated copies of commercial operating systems. |
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> that you will also need that mod to run free operating systems on it |
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> will just not count. at least not for commercially offering the mod. |
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> just look at decss. or playstation mod chips. |
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I am assuming that unlike the old days when I used to boot Linux on PCs using |
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a floppy with SmartBootManager, now we'll need to generate some key/hash for |
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our freshly compiled kernel, then add it to the BIOS firmware and flash the |
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BIOS with it before we are able to boot into it? |
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Is it more complicated than that? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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