[karajorma]

Apple don't have a monopoly. Simple as that.

[Cyker]

Having seen the activation procedure for BitLocker, this is a bit of a storm in a teacup; You'd need to at least be Competant to be able to get it running in the first place, and you'd hope that someone installing Linux wouldn't be stupid enough to turn that functionality on too!

And yeah, monopoly's are dependant on scale - If Apple and Microsoft's positions were reversed, Apple would be fighting off anti-trust suits left, right and centre.

Be glad that ain't the case - Compared to Apple, Microsoft's business practices are the epitome of openness!

[IceFire]

I'm confident that the OSS community will figure out this one and there will be something that lets users Dual Boot to whatever they want.  I'm dual booting WinXP and OpenSuSE 10 and its not a huge deal for me right now...I'm sure it'll be doable in the future.

[aldo_14]

Apple don't have a monopoly. Simple as that.

I think also the EU ruling involed exposure of APIs for developers (or was that seperated)?