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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 11:19:26 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote:
> UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel binaries
> http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8035515/1292406/565573/0/

I may reply with another link:
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html



> This would seem to make compiling from source difficult.

It won't need much time until hackers find a way to find
a way around booting restrictions. Maybe this is an additional
step needed to make non-"Windows" boot on then-current
hardware. A free market won't allow a situation come up
that requires the competitor to obtain a "permission"
by its concurrent to make his product work. It would
also show a "security feature" being an aspect of
"defective by design" regarding computer hardware
and its manufacturers.

Compiling from source? You don't even get that far! :-)



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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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