S.O.P.A.

[BladeRunner]

Isto é o principio...
A "querida" Microsoft anda a fazer "lobbying", junto dos fabricantes de hardware, para implementar Digital Rights Management, em complemento a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface!

"Ronald G. Minnich, a co-author of coreboot, and Cory Doctorow, a science fiction writer and digital rights activist, have criticized EFI as an attempt to preserve intellectual property by removing the ability of the user to truly control his computer. It does not solve any of the BIOS's long standing problems of requiring two different drivers — one for the firmware and one for the operating system — for most hardware.

"Recently, Microsoft released a document about hardware certification with OEM products, pointing out that all x86 and x86-64 devices should have the Secure UEFI enabled, however a custom secure boot mode could be enabled providing to the user the ability to add signatures. However, going to custom secure boot mode or disabling secure boot mode on ARM devices running Windows will not be possible. The document called Windows Hardware Certification Requirements confirm that ARM-based devices with Windows 8 will ban the possibility of installing alternative operating systems.

FONTE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Ext...#Criticism


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