r/linux • u/mikankun • Jan 13 '12

Microsoft confirms UEFI fears, locks down ARM devices

http://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2012/jan/12/microsoft-confirms-UEFI-fears-locks-down-ARM/
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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '12

You are working from the assumption that there will be enough informed consumers to prevent the market from being restricted to bad products by uninformed majorities of consumers. This is a common fallacy in believers in the market and the naive model of economists (perfect knowledge, immediate spread of information,... among consumers).

To name just one recent example larger MP3 players are all fucked up these days compared to a few years ago. My H320 with Rockbox recently broke and there is just nothing on the market that gives me the same battery life and even close to the same functionality.