-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Curiosity may kill the reckless maverick
- From: dsw32952 <dsw32952@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:40:37 -0400
Well... phooey! Guess I'll just have to be paranoid for no reason at
all then. :-))
Gman wrote:
>
>>
>> HP has demonstrated to me that they are not happy with customers that
>> want to make their computers work in anyway other than the way HP wants
>> them to work. Without intending to sound paranoid, is there anything
>> in the CMOS or BIOS that HP could muck with that would cause or
>> contribute to problems like this?
>>
>
>
> They can tie a BIOS to a specific mobo and they can use proprietary parts to
> keep out compeditor's hardware, but they can't control partitioning,
> multi-booting, etc.. If you are running their version of the operating
> system, they can also try to limit many software options, but I don't see
> any way how that would have this effect.
>
>
>
>> Don
>>
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