[Bradford] UEFI and other Microsoft nasties

[John Robert Hudson]

I doubt big media or Apple have anything to do with it; the UEFI issues
have all been round implementation; Linus long ago said he welcomed UEFI
but MS demanded a specific implementation from OEMs for which SUSE has
now published a workaround.

We had similar problems with MSDOS in the early 1980s but DR produced
two superior workarounds, PCDOS for IBM and DRDOS for everyone else.
Those who did not want to be saddled with an inferior MS product simply
went for DRDOS.

Apple would have moved to EFI anyway; they are riding high because more
people are realising the limitations of MS and a lot of FOSS is
available for Macs anyway.

John
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On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 23:47 +0100, Daniel Snowden wrote:
> Regarding big media being the driver behind UEFI/secure boot, I wonder
> if there is the hand of apple somewhere in this.  While the original
> EFI specs were developed by intel, apple were the first to start
> utilising it  Given the expansion of the itunes store and apples
> control over the iphone/ipod touch/ipad platforms (which I've found
> some in the oss community appear to be ignoring - if the proliferation
> of apple devices at barcamp events I saw was anything to go by)
> 
> 
> UEFI does offer advantages over the long obsolete BIOS, the only
> questions now are surrounding the long term implications of secure
> boot (although since I use fedora, I seem to be ok for now)
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