From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 6 12:31:59 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E8441065675 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 12:31:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-ee0-f54.google.com (mail-ee0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C836C8FC0C for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 12:31:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eeke49 with SMTP id e49so2550583eek.13 for ; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 05:31:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-gm-message-state; bh=BsMcAyw1dBN/sPkhlhiHWkn0ESi1y8Sv3phXMi3t4N8=; b=emdBZ43fzqIh9pyKN5P5bv75EZ7JmjDfV9hyKV1IuGK0YrE9RNvw40lhgXX+SuLGoo 6py38txHsP6w6g9Agjl5IFofAgIyZhB+J9nfSdhqVT0H/q1XPKK8McNLCHvB97/a7k9n NL3PXYb8Pld1fXc6lcdrgQb/nZHclcYoPf/xesgWukEOLTSrEAlI2oXTOSCTv01pWL8W 4dxAM5OobYOywOuuz2N9N9PuBKE/kCWHiA0LziXaUl8cAAn9h+QRiCyRyjzUToTk1k3b fA8MKm/3dxQiwJ9s1bvuW7bUP7WsW5sPpL23g6DcJk/id2SGN4yLlGAfjwBpZN9FcDfZ rB8w== Received: by 10.14.99.206 with SMTP id x54mr9685497eef.94.1338985917681; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 05:31:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dfleuriot-at-hi-media.com ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o16sm5917769eeb.13.2012.06.06.05.31.56 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 06 Jun 2012 05:31:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FCF4DBB.5020006@my.gd> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:31:55 +0200 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20120605221250.9da6bd5c.goksin.akdeniz@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120605221250.9da6bd5c.goksin.akdeniz@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-9 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlZv3fZ1AU2IbNX4urfNg08OGbwGIPTrS8OCAMyg8ROm3RBbEmAq0XUnVEwGsIZ0yY9oGXB Subject: Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:31:59 -0000 On 6/5/12 9:12 PM, Gökşin Akdeniz wrote: >> >> UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel >> binaries http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8035515/1292406/565573/0/ >> > > That's restriction is only for ARM devices which have a label that says > "Desgined for Windows8". In other words those devices can not boot > another os except Windows 8 due to secure boot option enabled by > default. > > The short and the long of it Microsoft is copying Apple on tablets with > ARM. > Well perhaps it should say "designed ONLY for windows8" then ? This has "class action" written all over it, just like the "ready for win7" fiasco where the PCs displaying the sticker could only run the minimalist version of the OS.