[Wylug-discuss] UEFI

[Andrew Lindley]

Apropos is Professor Ross Anderson's blog article which states that the
UEFI thing is 'clearly illegal' linking a page on EU competition law
[1]. UEFI is clearly constraint of the Linux kernel development
methodology.  Any awareness raising should involve promoting the idea
of a pooled complaint by GNU/Linux businesses and developers to the
Competition Commissioners.  

Andrew / Leny

[1] http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2011/09/20/trusted-computing-2-0/

On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:22:31 +0100
Türker Sezer <turkersezer at tsdesign.info> wrote:
> Short explanation about UEFI; with secure start option of UEFI -which
> is new bios software which will become widespread next year- boot,
> binary and device drivers which doesn't contain valid signature
> -authorized organization is not definite- will be blocked at hardware
> level. This feature must be on as default to get "Windows 8
> compatible" badge. So most of producers started to use UEFI in their
> products.
> 
> This means -even it can be disabled from bios settings- that we can't
> install Linux until we find this option in bios and disable it in new
> computers. And any other O/S except Windows 8 can't be installed on
> some laptops which doesn't contain detailed bios features.
> 
> For this reason, i suggest you attend the petition of FSF:
> http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot
> 
> And i want to ask what we can do to create awareness?