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Originally Posted by Ankh
You did notice that the limitation is imposed on ANY vendor who will offer (at any price) Windows 8 ARM devices? The price of "Surface" has nothing to do with that business practice.
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I see, I didn't pay attention to that distinction. Anyway, there is still the possibility they are subsidizing these ARM tablets with a big ad campaign and subsidies for promotional activities by the manufacturers. My guess is that MS will have quite a long haul before this becomes profitable. The last they would want is that all these tablets are being hacked to become Linux or Android devices.
If a manufacturer sees a market for a Linux tablet it should be quite easy to take the same or very similar hardware?