I read in the wiki there's already a lawsuit in Europe on the anti-trust approach.LOL; they'd have to get their boot sectors signed by Microsoft, because all the new UEFI - based ROMs only should accept signed boots (so to say), which is what Microsoft made aan requirement for their Windows 8 - and most hardware manufacturers followed them.
Linux is only bootable on UEFI because MIcrosoft signed their boot.
Makes me wonder how long UEFI is allowing "custom boots".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface
The restriction is only for PC sold with pre installed Windows. But the origin of the problem is this. I don't understand PC users that buy Windows PC and have no way to install again the OS, it's totally mad, but I'm not surprised from PC users that tend not think much.
They even invented the OEM keys license, lol, it's incredibly ridiculous. On base users accepting that are mad or are used to change their PC every year or every two year. They get what they worth by having allowed this.
For now even UEFI Mac can install Windows 8 so I think it shows that nothing is blocked if you install yourself the OS. But I'm not sure if Windows 8 is UEFI installed or not on those Mac, as Windows 8 allows also EFI and those Mac can manage EFI, it's possibly this mdoe which is used.
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