---
title: "He Who Controls the Bootloader"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/he-who-controls-the-bootloader-ck8qfy3gf
source_url: https://birdhouse.org/beos/byte/30-bootloader/
type: article
source: "Lobsters"
published: 2024-03-03T12:30:01.081Z
updated: 2026-06-25T02:12:28.473Z
tags: ["bootloader", "microsoft", "palm"]
reading_time: 11
upvotes: 2
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# He Who Controls the Bootloader

**[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 11 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Palm has purchased Be, but it is unclear what they plan to do with the technology. Microsoft's dominance in the commercial desktop OS market has made it nearly impossible for any other OS to succeed. There are no commercially available dual-boot Win/Linux machines due to the terms of the Windows License agreement.

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Tags: [#bootloader](https://daily.dev/tags/bootloader), [#microsoft](https://daily.dev/tags/microsoft), [#palm](https://daily.dev/tags/palm)

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