> Supposing your OEM isn't abusing his powers and respects > Microsoft's requirements if it's an x86 platform, you should > be able to add your own key in the firmware, which will be > used to verify the boot loader. If this thing is well > designed (I assume it is), you won't have to flip a single > bit on the boot loader and certainly not rebuild it > (provided it does support secure boot in the first place). I am trying to understand the pros and cons in the arguments here, but I am just a mere mortal so I will ask what I don't understand. 1) Red Hat will pay $99 to each OEM that exists in order to boot Fedora 18 which should come out in parallel when windows 8 comes out? 2) Secure boot could be disabled in the bios and one could bypass the pile of M$ crap? 3) Other OSes also have to boot, since Red Hat has/is/will be paying $99 to M$/other company to be able to safely boot Fedora, they can just mimick Fedora's bootup|kernel parameters and not pay to securely boot? 4) an other page that explains some of this, I don't know if has been mentioned here is http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html It has some explanations, but the topic is still difficult to understand and I would have to agree with the suggestions others have shared here in this thread. Only time will tell how this issue will be affected once we get there. Best Regards, Antonio -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
