Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:47:11 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of? Message-ID: <4FCF352F.7030509@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120606062437.41f48a9e@scorpio> References: <CADy1Ce7MihpmMowc265%2BS_RKorMO3KEKsCgr=pdnjg2jzq-dYQ@mail.gmail.com> <20120605203717.5663bdf7.freebsd@edvax.de> <Pine.GSO.4.64.1206051653120.5642@nber6> <20120605181055.4af65fdb@scorpio> <4FCF0772.8000609@FreeBSD.org> <4FCF1891.9020006@cran.org.uk> <4FCF2521.6090006@FreeBSD.org> <20120606062437.41f48a9e@scorpio>
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On 06/06/2012 11:24, Jerry wrote:
> I think you are in error there Matthew. From what I have read The $99
> goes to Verisign, not Microsoft - further once paid you can sign as
> many binaries as you want.
Having to pay Verisign instead of Microsoft makes no difference: the
point is why should I have to pay anything to a third party in order to
run whatever OS I want on a piece of hardware I own?
$99 as a one-off payment might seem a trivial cost to you, so much so
that you rather rashly promised to pay that for anyone. I won't hold you
to it. Even so, there are several thousand readers of this list. I
doubt even you could afford to subsidise very many of them...
Yes UEFI Secure Boot may have been around for 8 years. The fact that no
one has adopted use of it in all that time speaks volumes.
Cheers,
Matthew
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