FSF Campaign against Microsoft's Plan to Enforce "Secure Boot"

[Ori Idan]

Unfortunately this is not FUD at all, it was reported by a Red-Hat employee
and was not denied by Microsoft.

See:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/21/secure_boot_firmware_linux_exclusion_fears/

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Ori Idan


On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 1:06 PM, geoffrey mendelson <
geoffreymendelson at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Oct 23, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
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>> The Free Software Foundation started a campaign called “Stand up for your
>> freedom to install free software!” about Microsoft's plan to enforce
>> “Secure Boot” in the installations of Windows 8, which will prevent people
>> from being able to boot into GNU/Linux, one of the BSD variants, or other
>> operating systems. You can sign it here:
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>> http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/**secure-boot-vs-restricted-**boot/statement<http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/statement>
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> It's pure FUD.
> "we are concerned that Microsoft and hardware manufacturers will implement
> these boot restrictions in a way that will prevent users from booting
> anything other than Windows."
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> Not that they are, or saying they will, or even hinted they will.
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> The FSF is struggling to regain some semblance of public support after
> RMS's disastrous FSF boycott of Israel and his comments about Steve Jobs. Do
> the world a favor and let the FSF die with dignity, instead of being
> remembered as a bunch of racist FUDslinging lunatics.
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> Geoff.
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