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The principaled stance doesn't go far enough! | 474 comments | Create New Account
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FSF Publishes Important Whitepaper on Secure Boot - Who Got It Wrong?
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 02 2012 @ 04:03 PM EDT
Where do the distributors stand? Third parties? I don't think so.
They are Canonical's clients. If they come beating on Canonical's door
asking for help (the key) Canonical surely has some moral if not fiduciary
duty towards them.

> What's the FSF doing to help solve these problems?
...
> We have already started exploring ways in which the FSF can work
> with manufacturers on behalf of the entire free software community
> to make free software operating systems installable with default
> Secure Boot hardware settings.

So Canonical, which has taken a pragmatic (Easy way out?) approach,
is not included in the list of little companies that have run to FSF
asking to sort this out.

So I went to h-node to see what hardware is "certified" fit for use
with Free Software, and I find there is no category of motherboards,
that's an open "issue":
http://www.h-
node.org/issues/view/en/114/1/020aa736c8f37be9e8d3555bd8ab8dea

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The principaled stance doesn't go far enough!
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 02 2012 @ 04:10 PM EDT
That is, true OWNERSHIP of a computer means that when you decide, for purposes
of web browsing, that when your location is asked for, your browser gets
"1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" today and "1 Times Square"
tomorrow, all while you sit in the comfort of your favorite chair.

It means that a message pops up when my supposed word processor starts trying to
send messages to www.warez.net. It means a message pops up when it tries to
look at ANYTHING on your computer except the files you have opened or its own
code.

And it means that 1 million lines of code in the Kernel is far too many.

Linux is a fine OS...but the permission model needs updgrading. Android has a
better permission model..but it is still not enough.
(Christenson)

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