Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 04:28:14 -0700 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of? Message-ID: <CAOgwaMuKG57%2B6W8698TwJ%2BgvLdSfdXBnFJvuA7JgmPdo5Wi2dA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4FCF352F.7030509@infracaninophile.co.uk> 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> <4FCF352F.7030509@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Matthew Seaman < m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > 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 > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard > Flat 3 > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate > JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW > > What will be the usefulness of a security key for an Open Source Operating System when people are not using mostly "proprietary" binary packages and nearly all of the supplied binary packages have accompanying sources ? When FreeBSD is installing a binary package or making a port , it is ALWAYS checking integrity of installed parts . Then is there a necessity of a "Security Key" obtained by paying money ? In Turkish literature , there is a person named as "Deli Dumrul" means "Crazy Dumrul" where his name is "Dumrul" . "Crazy Dumrul" constructed a bridge over a dried river . If any one passes from the bridge , he was taking money for passing over the bridge for "Using the Bridge" , and , if any one is NOT passing from the bridge , and walking over the dried river , he was taking money for "Not to Use the Bridge" . It seems that "History is Repeating" .... Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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