Ubuntu on UEFI and Win 8

[JD]

On 01/07/2013 03:07 PM, David Fletcher wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 14:06 -0700, JD wrote:
>
>> My suspicion about secure boot, is that it a first foot in the door.
>> Can you see that it may become a fixed feature that cannot be disabled?
>> I certainly see that it is a very strong possibility.
>>
>> With Windows owning 98% of the world desktop market,
>> I can see that dual booting may at least become a tough
>> if not impossible thing to do.
>>
>> So, hold on to you old non-secure-uefi hardware.
>> You may very well need it in the future :)
>>
>>
> My hope is that open source is becoming used by a sufficient number of
> powerful interests (governments, military, stock exchanges, banks, movie
> studios, NASA) that a stop will be put on this stupidity.
>
> Or somebody with sufficient fiscal muscle such as Google will market
> their own motherboards.
>
> There's some interesting reading over at fsf.org such as a free BIOS
> campaign/coreboot.
>
> Dave
I hope you're right Dave!