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/ -- Ori Idan On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 1:06 PM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Oct 23, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > >> >> 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: >> >> http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/**secure-boot-vs-restricted-**boot/statement<http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/statement> >> > > > 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." > > Not that they are, or saying they will, or even hinted they will. > > 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. > > Geoff. > > -- > Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM > My high blood pressure medicine reduces my midichlorian count. :-( > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/**mailman/listinfo/linux-il<http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il> >
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