Linux Foundation releases Windows Secure Boot fix

[Lupi]

http://www.zdnet.com/linux-foundation-releases-windows-secure-boot-fix-7000011084/

[grahammechanical]

One accused Bottomley of folding "to Microsoft UEFI and microsofts monopolistic decision to have OEMs use UEFI whether a consumer wants this or not under the guise of security when in fact its an effort to maintain control on MS part." Others used far harsher terms.

Spread the hate around. Now, what is that saying? Those who can, do. Those who can't, become critics.

[prodigy_]

Spread the hate around. Now, what is that saying? Those who can, do. Those who can't, become critics.
Not everything that is being done is worth doing. I would boycott Secure Boot out of principle and advise users to turn it off in BIOS.

[sdowney717]

You must also be an expert Linux user to even try to get this to work at this point.

Just what MS wants make it easy for windows and hard to do anything else, you might even brick your laptop, like Samsung.

More of MS FUD.
and
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

It is how MS does its thing.


"Embrace, extend, and extinguish",[1] also known as "Embrace, extend, and exterminate",[2] is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found[3] was used internally by Microsoft[4] to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences to disadvantage its competitors.

[prodigy_]

But do you know what's the best part? Microsoft needed Secure Boot mostly to lock their RT tablets. Desktops/laptops were basically a testbed and all the troubles Linux users got were icing on the cake. Again a mighty corporation forced end users to pay for the development of a technology that will shackle and inconvenience them. And again the mighty corporation will get away with this.

And TLF, instead of rallying the FOSS community and filing a lawsuit, bowed to Microsoft. Miserable cowards.

[Paqman]

And TLF, instead of rallying the FOSS community and filing a lawsuit, bowed to Microsoft. Miserable cowards.

How's the weather under that bridge?

[pqwoerituytrueiwoq]

How's the weather under that bridge?
the expression is "water under the bridge"

[Lupi]

http://www.zdnet.com/linux-developers-working-on-uniting-windows-8-secure-boot-fixes-7000011094/

[llanitedave]

the expression is "water under the bridge"

No, trolls like bridges, but they tend to avoid water.

[iamkuriouspurpleoranj]

Ah, ZDNet, that great source of... income for its contributors.