On 15/12/16 01:43, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 23:21:47 -0000, Martin Barclay
wrote:

2004 -
Microsoft gets green light to punish OS-less PC vendors.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/01...s_green_light/

It's called big business. Nothing to stop you formatting the PC, or
buying the parts yourself.

Except a boot system that needs proprietary microsoft code to boot.

Its called UEFI.