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<p>----- Mensaje original -----
<br>> On 01/06/12 13:58, Matt Wheeler wrote:
<br>> > On 1 June 2012 08:02, alan c<<a href="mailto:aeclist@candt.waitrose.com">aeclist@candt.waitrose.com</a>> wrote:
<br>> > > Time has passed.
<br>> > > The problem has now matured, and Fedora have accepted defeat and
<br>> > > decided to pay to be allowed to use Microsoft restricted hardware.
<br>> > >
<br>> > > Implementing UEFI Secure Boot in Fedora Linux
<br>> > > <a href="http://j.mp/KZykUS">http://j.mp/KZykUS</a>
<br>> >
<br>> > According to an update to that article, the money actually goes to
<br>> > verisign, and anyone can get a signing key from them for $99. So
<br>> > actually (without having looked into it any further) this looks like
<br>> > quite a reasonable solution to securing system booting in general.
<br>> >
<br>> > Anyone have any further insight?
<br>>
<br>> Only that Microsoft are the gatekeeper, and can change the rules
<br>> whenever their brass neck allows them to, as they have just done.
<br>> Rather clever, I think. Never trust the smile on a crocodile. Or its
<br>> love of open source.
<br>>
<br>> On a day to day basis, if a machine has a mainboard which has a secure
<br>> boot 'off' switch, then that is what I will use, because I do not want
<br>> nor need Microsoft stuff. But if someone wants what we used to know
<br>> as 'dual boot', then they will need to run day by day on the mainboard
<br>> which is set FOR secure boot (for Windows 8), so the GNU/Linux OS will
<br>> need to be suitably signed in that situation.
<br>>
<br>> For Ubuntu, WUBI comes to mind although I am aware that there are
<br>> occasionally enough problems with some grub updates that I stopped
<br>> recommending wubi a long time ago except for very short term trials.
<br>>
<br>> --
<br>> alan cocks
<br>>
<br>>
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<br>I'm getting a bit confused now. Everybody seems Does the fedora payment of $99 to verisign mean that the computer that could or could not have windows preinstalled will alow to install fedora and windows but not fedora derivatives?
<br>Would fedora users then have the hability to easily turn it off?
<br>The ideal bit could be that fedora users could also avoid windows usrers in the grounds that it's probable source of malwar?
<br>Could linux foundation do the same for the servers? beause they can be "cracked" in a similar way?
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