<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:51 PM, geoffrey mendelson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geoffreymendelson@gmail.com">geoffreymendelson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On Oct 25, 2011, at 5:37 PM, Amit Aronovitch wrote:<br>
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Setting aside the amusing political debates and going back to the original topic - what's the actual status of the UEFI boot issue?<br>
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1. Microsoft never said they would do what the FSF claims they would.<br>
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2. Microsoft has said, but not in these words, we were not going to do this.<br>
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If you want a somewhat relevant and entertaining experience watch the movie "Minority Report".<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>My concern in that message was regarding standartization of BIOS boot protocols, and whether or not future standards would allow you to boot your own self-compiled/self-signed kernels.<br>
<br>Whatever or not the FSF announcement said. Microsoft is *not* the authority responsible for that, merely one out of 11 companies (including Apple and IBM) which are represented in the relevant forum.<br><br>The relevance of FSF in the matter is only due to the fact that they brought this specific issue to the attention of this specific list.<br>
Microsoft's opinion (and I mean their opinion on BIOS boot options, not on Stallman or his visit to Israel^H^HPalestine) is relevant because I suppose that they are strongly represented, and unlikely to be ignored (Redhat is not listed on UEFI site, so I suppose Mathew Garrett's suggestions will get less attention than ideas brought forward by Microsoft).<br>
Hence my interest in the statement mentioned here.<br><br>Took a while, but while writing this reply I finally got your point about "Minority Report" (been a while, and all I remembered from the film was Tom Cruise waving his hands to operate that then-futuristic-looking GUI) :-)<br>
<br> AA<br><br></div></div></div>