*countable infinities only

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 2 22:27:38 UTC 2012


On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
>> You're fine with one level of injustice. I'm fine with another level of
>> injustice. Both compromise the freedoms that Fedora currently gives you.
>
> I'm not fine with it. It's an unfortunate situation too. But producing
> a single special case trivial display program for users who couldn't
> run anything which was truly free at all is hardly comparable to
> cryptographically locking down the core of an OS— millions of lines of
> code written by other people, and missing an opportunity to help users
> regain their complete freedom at a time when they are most ready and
> willing to accept a little inconvenience.

No one is preventing anyone from providing instructions on how to
disable secure boot. We should definitely do that.
But those are not mutually exclusive ... i.e we can have both
documentation *and* an OS that just works.


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