On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Carlos Ribeiro
Well If I right understood, this new secure feature, deep impact and affect the computer manufacturers too like, IBM, DELL, HP, POSITIVO, and many others that already provide their Linux offers at the same machine.
I believe this new boot feature that only make people able to boot and install OSs if it is already signed by someone, will not be so good to hardware machine builders companies, because the manufactures will loose the power and flexibility of Linux in their offers also make them unable to provide any kind of support or not, or at least they will need to change something in theirs strategy to be compliant with a company like microsoft that has nothing related with their business?
In some countries we have an common selling practice and strategy called "Venda Casada"[1] something similar to "linked sale" or "cross-selling" that is not legally in some countries
"Cross-selling is when additional products and/or services are offered to the customer in order to meet specific needs associated with the original service request."
The question is, there is no law that make this feature illegally?
If manufactures starts to know about that and refuse to implement this "secure boot" feature into their products like IBM, Dell, POSITIVO, HP so maybe Microsoft starts to think in another way to implemented such thing without forcing these companies to be dependent of this company.
Of course we need to keep looking for a technical solution, but also I think is a good idea to start to think about political, economical and based on specifics laws solutions to help us to keep the freedom of choice and diversity on top of humanity needs instead of "secure".
I remember that sometimes in past customers power makes companies to do unbelievable agreements that we could never imagine, and I'm not talking if their agreements was good or not, just unpredictable.
Another point is that some big, huge, enormous customers of these manufactures like walmart, casas bahia, petrobras and many others around the world have heterogeneous IT infrastructure and probably they will not be happy to know that in few time they will not more be able to have freedom of choice about which OS they will run or flexibility to change from one to another one. So this is not only about 99 pieces of a value metal, depending of the point of view could be also a problem to some companies strategy and freedom to run their business just like they want and not imposed by other company that have nothing related with their market or business and could be a legal issue too.
How many companies are building their solutions using SUSE Studio, how many building their solutions with kiwi, obs. ? Makes sense to involve companies that are running obs and studio? Do they will effectively be affected?
[1] http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venda_casada
CarlosRibeiro
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