http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/05/31/190217/red-hat-will-pay-microsoft-to-get-past-uefi-restrictions
Looking up the article: "Implementing UEFI Secure Boot in Fedora" at http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html
"The last option wasn't hugely attractive, but is probably the least
worst. Microsoft will be offering signing services through their sysdev portal.
It's not entirely free (there's a one-off $99 fee to gain access), but
it's cheaper than any realistic alternative would have been. It ensures
compatibility with as wide a range of hardware as possible and it avoids
Fedora having any special privileges over other Linux distributions. If
there are better options then we haven't found them. So, in all
probability, this is the approach we'll take. Our first stage bootloader
will be signed with a Microsoft key."
If I have to pay $99 to Microsoft in order to install my Free/Open Operating System, then I am making Microsoft $99 richer off the effort of multiple volunteers that made Linux and Fedora possible and my "Free" Operating System now effectively costs $99. And if this catches up, then breaking the Secure Boot will eventually be a DMCA violation and we'd have to be asking the Copyright office every three years for the "right" to jailbreak/root our own computers again.
I'd rather go back to the times of Compatibility lists of motherboards than enable the above state of affairs. I say NO to Danegeld for Microsoft.
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