[haiku-development] Re: Should Haiku, Inc. sign the FSF SecureBoot petition?

  • From: Jimmy <jimmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:08:16 +0000 (UTC)



Dec 29, 2012 03:55:29 AM, haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>On 29/12/2012 07:52, Alexander von Gluck wrote:
>> I noticed several folks from Haiku have signed the FSF
>> SecureBoot petition.
>> 
>> We could sign the petition as an organization and get
>> some nice advertisement of our support while helping
>> a good cause.
>> 
>> If you aren  't aware of SecureBoot... Windows 8 systems
>> require PC manufactures to use a locked down boot process
>> (part of UEFI) to "secure" the system. The side effect is
>> that you have to have a "blessed" key from Microsoft to
>> boot anything other then Windows 8. (This is all part of
>> the "Windows 8 Certification" for hardware)
>> 
>> As these are commodity x86 machines, this impacts all
>> non-Microsoft operating systems including Haiku.
>
>Actually, while it "should" not be mandatory on x86, it definitely will
>be required on ARM devices for the windows 8 certification program.
>
>> Anyone against Haiku, Inc. signing this?
>> 
>> http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/statement/
>> 


 This why JLG sued Microsoft to begin with! 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/02/20/be_inc_sues_microsoft/
I think we have a moral obligation to sign the petition.
Jimmy

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