Fedora ARM and SecureBoot

[Gerry Reno]

On 06/08/2012 11:55 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Jun 8, 2012, at 6:47 AM, Gerry Reno wrote:
>> And I expect this idea of preventing other OS's from being installed on Win8 ARM hardware will not fly in the EU.  It's
>> anti-competitive.
> There's no such prevention. It's just that by voluntary agreement some ARM hardware is being manufactured with Secure Boot enabled and disabling it isn't possible. To use other OS's requires they be capable of supporting Secure Boot, on such hardware. That doesn't seem to be anti-competitive at all.

No.  It's entirely anti-competitive:
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2012/jan/12/microsoft-confirms-UEFI-fears-locks-down-ARM/


http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/