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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/ Quote:
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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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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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