[DC LoCo] Mark Shuttleworth responds to: Any comment on the Ubuntu UEFI ruckus?

Marti Martinson arthur.martinson at verizon.net
Wed Jun 20 16:41:22 UTC 2012


OK, change.org:

http://www.change.org/petitions/department-of-commerce-stop-microsoft-monopoly-of-secure-boot-certificates-on-future-pc-hardware#

Marti

On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 11:49 -0400, Jeremy C. wrote:
> Change.org would be a great place to set up a well-thought plea for
> supporters to take action. 
> 
> 
> You could also add in Act.ly
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Marti Martinson
> <arthur.martinson at verizon.net> wrote:
>         Well, FWIW, I emailed my non-voting Congressional rep, the
>         Speaker of
>         the House, and the Supreme Court (well, their contact for
>         public
>         affairs). I guess I will try the Dept of Commerce, maybe even
>         Defense,
>         since this would put pretty much all new computers under
>         Microsoft
>         control.
>         
>         Can we inundate officials email boxes with our concerns?  :)
>         
>         On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 08:24 -0400, Keith Howell wrote:
>         > All,
>         >
>         > I wonder if anyone has considered using the legal system
>         against this?
>         >
>         > It looks like the spec has been written to restrict the
>         signing to a
>         > single commercial entity, Microsoft, that has a monetary
>         incentive.
>         >
>         > This sounds like restrictive trade practices or a monopoly.
>         Given the
>         > courts previous rulings against such restrictive practices,
>         perhaps that
>         > is the route to take.
>         >
>         > Personally, I am not against a technology such as secure
>         boot, but *I*
>         > should be able to control the behavior. Even as far as
>         loading my own
>         > self-signed certificate into the device so that my own
>         compiled code is
>         > trusted.
>         >
>         > --
>         > Keith
>         >
>         > On 06/20/2012 08:12 AM, Kevin Cole wrote:
>         > > Any comment on the Ubuntu UEFI ruckus?
>         > >
>         > >
>         https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-June/035387.html
>         > >
>         > > Mark Shuttleworth mark at canonical.com
>         <http://canonical.com> Wed Jun
>         > > 20 00:29:27 UTC 2012
>         > >
>         > > Previous message: Minutes from the Ubuntu Kernel Team
>         meeting,
>         > > 2012-06-19 Next message: Any comment on the Ubuntu UEFI
>         ruckus? Messages
>         > > sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
>         > >
>         > > On 20/06/12 05:44, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols wrote: >
>         Matthew Garrett
>         > > started it: > > http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/13713.html > >
>         and it's been
>         > > "reported" on elsewhere but I wonder what you had to say >
>         about it.
>         > >
>         > > We've been working to provide an alternative to the
>         Microsoft key, so
>         > > that the entire free software ecosystem is not dependent
>         on Microsoft's
>         > > goodwill for access to modern PC hardware. We originally
>         flagged the
>         > > UEFI / SecureBoot transition as a major problem for free
>         software, we
>         > > lead the efforts to shape the specification in a more
>         industry-friendly
>         > > way, and we're pressing OEM partners for options that will
>         be more
>         > > broadly acceptable than Red Hat's approach.
>         > >
>         > > SecureBoot retains flaws in its design that will
>         ultimately mandate that
>         > > Microsoft's key is on every PC (because of core UEFI
>         driver signing).
>         > > That, and the inability of SecureBoot to support multiple
>         signatures on
>         > > critical elements means that options are limited but we
>         continue to seek
>         > > a better result.
>         > >
>         > > Mark
>         > >
>         > > Previous message: Minutes from the Ubuntu Kernel Team
>         meeting,
>         > > 2012-06-19 Next message: Any comment on the Ubuntu UEFI
>         ruckus? Messages
>         > > sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
>         > >
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