On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:36 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/06/2012 10:56 AM, Álvaro Castillo wrote: >> >> So you are pay a Microsoft company for can be used your system? > > > Actually If I'm not mistaken in the end Verisign is the company that's > getting the extortion tax. > Yes, but, Microsoft wants that OEM vendors lock PCs, tablets and so on with secure boot locked. if you not pay, you cannot install it. > There is a lenghty thread about this on -devel which I've been wondering > how long it takes for people to realize that the only way to effectively > preventing Secureboot from happening is to convince goverments to not sell > that monopolized hardware ( convincing China and EU should suffice the > states are probably a lost cause due to lobbyism that takes place there ). > > Until that has been done what Matthew mentioned on his blog post are really > the only option available to us and yes it sucks. > > JBG > > > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing Maybe, pay or rewarding hacks team to decoding UEFI secure boot and release patches or firmware, ways to flashes. -- Álvaro Castillo http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Netsys Linux user #547784 -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
