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Old 25th February 2013
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Default Linus Torvalds in NSFW Red Hat rant

Linus Torvalds in NSFW Red Hat rant
X.509 dispute turns XXX as Torvalds says Red Hat wants kinky fun with Redmond


from http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02...torvalds_rant/

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Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has again vented his spleen online, taking on Red Hat employee David Howells with a series of expletive-laden posts on the topic of X.509 public key management standard.

The action takes place on the Linux Kernel Mailing List, with Howell posting a request that Torvalds “pull this
patchset please”.
It seems to involve a scheme where Microsoft would sign Redhat kernel modules for UEFI purposes...
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Later in the week, Linus did clarify his thoughts on how UEFI and secure boot should work for Linux:

http://www.zdnet.com/torvalds-clarif...on-7000011918/

Now that FreeBSD has stepped into the UEFI ring:

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=38206

I think it is important to focus on "how" secure boot for UEFI should be used for BSD, not just how it should be used for Microsoft.

Linus thinks that the user should be able to sign their own modules and put their own keys into the PC BIOS.
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I don't have any UEFI hardware with Secure Boot, but if I had, I would file a complaint at the European Commission, http://ec.europa.eu/competition/cons...ntacts_en.html instead of kowtow'ing to Microsoft.
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My wife's machine is UEFI. It took a bit, but I found the BIOS setting to disable it.

Makes me wonder how long it will be before that setting conveniently "disappears".
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The European commission sure has had a lot of success getting Microsoft to increase browser choices.
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I don't have any UEFI hardware with Secure Boot, but if I had, I would file a complaint at the European Commission, http://ec.europa.eu/competition/cons...ntacts_en.html instead of kowtow'ing to Microsoft.
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The European commission sure has had a lot of success getting Microsoft to increase browser choices.
Actually the commission just fined Microsoft for 561 million euros which is about 734 million US dollars.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...or?INTCMP=SRCH

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comet--berkeley, You're quite right. I had seen the headline of a similar article at the time of that fine, and without reading the article, had just assumed Microsoft had done nothing.
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comet--berkeley, You're quite right. I had seen the headline of a similar article at the time of that fine, and without reading the article, had just assumed Microsoft had done nothing.
You may still be correct IdOp. Just because Microsoft has to pay a fine does not mean that they will actually make other browsers more available...

Time will tell if Microsoft actually does anything.
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You may still be correct IdOp. Just because Microsoft has to pay a fine does not mean that they will actually make other browsers more available...

Time will tell if Microsoft actually does anything.
Well, according to that article (if I've read it right) MicroSoft did initially (in 2009) comply with the EC, and many browsers were downloaded through Windows that way. Then in their Win7 Service Pack 1, they goofed up and de-activated the browser choice menu, leading to this fine after they came forward with the error.

All that said, again according to the article, it took the EC from early 2000's to 2009 (let's say 5+ years) to get MS to agree. That's a lot of time, and money spent on lawyers. If the secure boot / UEFI thing goes this way, such a delay could lead to a lot of pain for the non-Windows PC users while the process plays out. Hopefully the threat of this process, with browsers as a precedent, might make MS more willing to be helpful.

I don't know if there's a better way. I'm not technically knowledgeable on how it works, just find it an interesting topic to follow as it affects PCs significantly. Thanks for linking the article as it prompted me to finally read about the fine. It's funny I didn't read the other similar article because I usually like to read about things where MicroSoft was bad.
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You may still be correct IdOp. Just because Microsoft has to pay a fine does not mean that they will actually make other browsers more available...
Sometimes this is viewed as a cost of doing business.
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