[Sheflug] FSF winduhs 8

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

FSF rambling on about restricted boot on the ARM platform...

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/149-security/3858-fsf-opposes-
restricted-boot.html


"  The Free Software Foundation is running a Restricted Boot Webcomic 
Contest to raise awareness of the issues surrounding Microsoft's 
"Secure Boot" feature on Windows 8 ARM-based machines which threatens 
to lock out other operating systems. This is marketing masquerading as 
security. "

Note the Raspberry Pi uses the ARM architecture.   Will Microsoft be 
able to lock this down?  In some ways this is a good question.  As far 
I understand it Microsoft attempts to lock down the Arm platform in 
Europe will fail due to EU law.  Not allowed to do what they want to 
do.  Might be that under U.S. law they can do something ?  Not sure 
about the latter.  Whatever else happens they will certainly use their 
marketing power to drive out GNU/Linux from the ARM CPU in the way 
that they did from the Asus EeePC.    Say n'more ?...  <cough>  
Winduhs advert...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT3_UCm1A5I

Best winduhs advert out there ;)

-- 
Richard

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