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Realistically all corporates are out there to make money, this shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.
that said I don't think witch-hunts with inadequate factual backing help anyone. This would appear to be one of those cases. A single customer support rep. makes a statement and it hits the front of /r/linux and HN without anyone actually checking with the companies in question.
It isn't hard to figure out what's happening if you read everything that went on. Windows itself doesn't install on these computers unless you have special drivers in the boot medium that aren't included with Windows 10. Why would Microsoft sabotage their own OS like that if this were something done to stymie other OSes?
Critical thinking led me to believe this story was false.
The option in question wasn't cloaked under "security" or "encryption" as many lock-downs are, but instead an unsupported disk mode.
The evidence that it was a "secret conspiracy" was a quote from a low-level customer support rep. You really think that that kind of information is provided to the thousands of rep's at that level... It would leak instantly if that was the case.
So Occam's razor applies. By far the more likely explanation, in this case, is a hardware incompatibility between Linux and the Lenovo configuration.
do corp's (including Lenovo and Microsoft ) do shitty stuff to users, sure of course they do. Does that mean people should jump to conclusions without adequate evidence... no.
Selective memory is disregarding all other areas where MS is actually encouring or trying to make their products work on Linux. The future of Microsoft is not Windows. I am also not disregarding the fact that I might be wrong, but as a Windows and Linux user, it seems strange to possibly alienate potential users with a Linux blocking move.
sctb|9 years ago
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simbalion|9 years ago
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raesene9|9 years ago
Realistically all corporates are out there to make money, this shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.
that said I don't think witch-hunts with inadequate factual backing help anyone. This would appear to be one of those cases. A single customer support rep. makes a statement and it hits the front of /r/linux and HN without anyone actually checking with the companies in question.
Not everything is a conspiracy theory....
Sanddancer|9 years ago
simbalion|9 years ago
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huhtenberg|9 years ago
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sctb|9 years ago
> WTH is wrong with you, people, really.
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raesene9|9 years ago
The option in question wasn't cloaked under "security" or "encryption" as many lock-downs are, but instead an unsupported disk mode.
The evidence that it was a "secret conspiracy" was a quote from a low-level customer support rep. You really think that that kind of information is provided to the thousands of rep's at that level... It would leak instantly if that was the case.
So Occam's razor applies. By far the more likely explanation, in this case, is a hardware incompatibility between Linux and the Lenovo configuration.
do corp's (including Lenovo and Microsoft ) do shitty stuff to users, sure of course they do. Does that mean people should jump to conclusions without adequate evidence... no.
christogreeff|9 years ago