On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 03:02:10 PM Basil Chupin wrote:
On 13/06/12 05:48, C wrote:
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Carlos E. R.
<robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 2012-06-12 21:36, C wrote:
The typical scenario is... someone buys a computer.. wants to try out this Linux thing they've heard of.. .pops a LiveUSB/CD/DVD in and boots it up.. UEFI pops up with whatever dire warning the manufacturer put in... "You are attempting to boot an unauthorized operating system, system halted" or some such scary message. How many will twig and say "oh right.. press Del during boot.. find and disable UEFI and boot again"... not many.
The problem is that if that person wants to later boot the Windows 8 they bought, they can't until they re-enable uefi secure booting.
So... even more reason we need to step up and support this UEFI thing.
We can argue about the semantics of it until the end of time.. is it right or wrong... and in a perfect world we'd say "no we won't go along with this initiative" but.. it's here already.. so... lets just get on with it and pay the fee, get the key... set it up so we can boot and be able to say we support Secure Boot :-)
C
My question is:
What does the EU think about all of this?
Does the EU see this as yet another attempt by Microsoft to monopolise the market?
BC
I have been following the UEFI+SecureBoot stuff several months ago. And certainly I have not heard anything from EU or any International rulers. Mostly the whole interaction is coming from Hardware Vendors, Software Developers and Press. Regards, -- Ricardo Chung | Panama Linux & FOSS Ambassador openSUSE Projects -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org