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On 06/06/2012 01:35 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote:
> But this is more to do with the BIOS than with Intel as such. Wasn't
> there a FreeBIOS, later LinuxBIOS, now coreboot I believe..?
> So replacing the BIOS entirely wouldn't suffice to override all this nonsense?
> _______________________________________________
     anybody will be free  to disable secure boot in x86 systems and run 
any OS, so this is not really a big deal.