On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On x86 systems, the ability to disable secure boot is mandated by > Microsoft and needed to debug Microsoft drivers and since all the > hardware manufacturers want to comply to this specification, you can be > rest assured they will provide this functionality and once you disable > secure boot (instructions for this will likely be in a Fedora wiki > page Yes, but notice the evil in Microsoft´s wording. Who wants to disable "SECURE" booting? Secure ´feels good´. Lack of ´secure´ does not. It´s like asking "do you want to disable secure landing"? on an airplane. ;) Of course 99.9% of the people will think "why do I have to disable SECURE boot to run this? I don´t want my system to have INSECURE booting... please give me secure! in fact, I´d like extra secure if possible" ;). -even if they don´t know what secure booting means to begin with- ;) Thus, for starters, RedHat´s decision to pay for a signing key is the practical approach, so users will be able to boot Fedora without tweaking their BIOS/CMOS settings. But what I think could be challenged with antitrust regulators is Microsoft CHARGING for it. To keep it a level playing field MSFT should issue free keys to any OS development firm that asks for one, whether commercial or open source. FC -- 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
