From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 10 20:06:54 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCD91106564A for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:06:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 381118FC0C for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:06:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mart.js.berklix.net (pD9FBEB3A.dip.t-dialin.net [217.251.235.58]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q5AK6kBN017726 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:06:47 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by mart.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q5AK6WTd033261 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:06:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q5AK6Qts083905 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:06:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201206102006.q5AK6Qts083905@fire.js.berklix.net> To: FreeBSD From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:09:17 +0200." Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:06:26 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.com 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: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:06:54 -0000 Too much hot air & preaching to the choir is counter productive & would die away after internal argument. Better be active Externaly. Defend our future by alerting governments there is an upcoming issue. (eg EU has mega fined MS before for monopoly abuse, EU etc could warn off MS if we alert governments there's something to monitor). Free source OSs, ie inc *BSD & *Linux etc, need to co-ordinate with eg - A few short anodyne sentences summarising the MS Win8 UEFI problem, (better too little text than too much, to reduce work, avoid risk of discredit from getting anything wrong). - List of links to specification & analysis & discussion forums. - List of contacts to alert: politicians & officials responsible for anti monopoly & anti restraint of trade policing. - List of volunteers: people in each OS project to contact governments. - A brief simple sample letter to send to alert politicians & officials (maybe via paper post or phone, not email to spam box ;-) As a start here's : http://berklix.org/uefi/ URLs welcome. Contact names welcome. Volunteers welcome. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/