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

[flint]

Greetings,

How are we doing on open source BIOS?
http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
John Gilmore


Regards,

Flint

On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:50:12 -0400, Kevin Cole <dc.loco at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:45 AM, jerry w <jerrywone at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> that's one thing for a personal use computer,
>> and I agree, I buy something I damn
>> well better be able to run whatever
>> I want on it...
>>
>> what about work computers?
>>
>> Boss/ Job wants only certain applications
>> and OS run on work time, and work
>> resources,
>>
>> and then there is the gov/ military
>> sector, where the information is Owned
>> and access control needed
>> ala wikileaks...
>>
> 
> Well, at a different level, it's the same thing: A sysadmin / "security
> officer" / what-have-you should be allowed to actively choose to have
> Microsoft (or whomever) manage the campus-wide security OR say "We have
the
> in-house expertise to dig our own graves... er, manage our own
security."
> ;-)  Said employees can then dictate and mandate requirements for all
> machines under their control and either firewall off machines that are
> brought in from the outside, or just prevent them from being brought in
at
> all.  Sure even with all the protections in place, someone, somewhere
will
> screw up and eventually something nasty will happen (which is why I
never
> want a job in security: I have a hard enough time sleeping at night),
but
> that's going to be true in a Microsoft-controlled world as well, n'est
pas?