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Date:      Tue, 5 Jun 2012 22:12:50 +0300
From:      =?ISO-8859-9?Q?G=F6k=FEin?= Akdeniz <goksin.akdeniz@gmail.com>
To:        Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?
Message-ID:  <20120605221250.9da6bd5c.goksin.akdeniz@gmail.com>
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>
> UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel
> binaries http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8035515/1292406/565573/0/
>=20

That's restriction is only for ARM devices which have a label that says
"Desgined for Windows8". In other words those devices can not boot
another os except Windows 8 due to secure boot option enabled by
default.

The short and the long of it Microsoft is copying Apple on tablets with
ARM.

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