Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

[J.Witvliet at mindef.nl]

-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of JD
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 11:40 AM
To: Community support for Fedora users
Subject: Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

On 06/04/2012 01:47 AM, Thibault Nélis wrote:
> .
>
> In my opinion, a better question would be "When will alternative 
> organizations to Microsoft will appear to offer the same services?", 
> and with that one I'd actually worry they might never come, even 
> though we need them.
>
So, if all the linux distros put their "heads" together and create a single
Linux signature authority, which will serve all the distros, and be funded
largely by the industry (which sell linux servers - such as IBM, among 
others),
and other for-money linux distros, such as Red Hat; then this will go a long
way towards making linux totally independent of MS as far as key signatures
are concerned.
-----Original Message-----

Excuse me if I'm misunderstanding,
But somehow it looks to me that we are forced in a direction we should not be heading to.

Wasn't the whole idea behind this uefi-restrictions, to:
a) improve Microsoft security record (fighting malware, rogue-drivers, worms, ...)
b) Fighting illegal versions of Windows.

If you -on those uefi-systems- can only boot a legitimate (contradiction in terminis) version of windows?
Big deal! 
As long as you still can boot something else.... (I mean NON-microsoft)
It should only means that their marketshare will be smaller (loss of "cloned" versions of W8/W9/Wx)

Just hope that "official" versions of W8, do not require such uefi-structure beneath them, otherwise you have a problem with vmware/kvm/xen.

Please correct me if I'm wrong...

Hans

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